IN CONTINUITY WITH ALL OF HIS PREDECESSORS, BEGINNING WITH POPE BENEDICT XVI, POPE LEO RECOVERS THE BEAUTY OF THE EASTER TRIDUUM AS THE BISHOP OF ROME AND AT HIS CATHEDRAL CHURCH, THE BASILICA OF SAINT JOHN LATERAN—NOT USED FOR THIS CATHEDRAL LITURGY BY THE BISHOP OF ROME FOR 12 LONG YEARS….

 Pope Leo wears a beautiful bejeweled chasuble with the dalmatic underneath. The miter matches the chasuble and is bejeweled as well.  It’s all very sparkly! The liturgy is beautiful as is the washing of the feet of 12 priests (vir) 11 of whom Pope Leo ordained to the all male priesthood. The procession with the Most Holy Eucharist to the altar of repose is simple but beautiful and the chapel of repose is spectacularly beautiful as is the chanting of the Pange Lingua, especially the first verse!