Please note that Pope Leo and I have similar tastes in vestments, and yes, mine, like His Holiness' are Italian-made:
Please note how it matches the floral arrangements:
And let's talk about the way so many places celebrate the Rite of Sprinkling Holy Water at Mass. So many try to drench as many people as possible in the modern/Bugnini rite. Liturgists in the 70's and 80's taught us that our signs should be big, extravagant and flamboyant. Thus, since the Bugnini Rite lacked so much mystery and mystic elements, a kind of silliness and liturgical liberal literalism entered the Bugnini Mass.
Exaggeration marks this silliness.
But not for Pope Leo or even Pope Francis. At the Easter blessing of people with Easter Water, the Holy Father took a wet sprig of something (hyssop?) went to the front of the massive congregation and blessed the congregation without getting a single soul wet. With three one step motions he accomplished this symbolic liturgical act.
How many had the priest or bishop go throughout the church, up and down all aisles and make sure everyone got drenched?
I might also add, that at the Vatican when it comes time to incense the people, the deacon goes to the center, incenses the center of where people are and then from one side to the next and that's it. He doesn't go the the cardinals first and incense them; then to the bishops and incense them; then to the priests and incense them and finally to the laity.
He accomplishes all the incensing of everyone without rank in the deacons three motions.
The Roman Rite is Sober! But often not the Bugnini Rite:
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"...the Holy Father took a wet sprig of something (hyssop?) went to the front of the massive congregation and blessed the congregation without getting a single soul wet."
Maybe when incense is used no smoke should be seen nor fragrance be smelled by a single soul.
Or when the choir chants an antiphon, not a single soul should hear a note - not a quaver, not a demi-quaver, not even a humidemisemi quaver (a 64th of a note).
Or when artwork is used to decorate the church, not one single soul, not with one single eye of a single soul should see it.
Yes, I walked the aisles, not to make sure that everyone got drenched, but to use the symbol of water as God intended it. Anyone who thinks otherwise is, well, all wet.
Bwaaaaaaaaaaaa Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!
Of course you’re all wet….🌊
Father, check out this YouTube video:
https://youtube.com/shorts/9t0paMICGJ0?si=E1ippT8N3k2qnHC_
A little early in the day to be drinking
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