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March 26, 2017 headlines
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Canon212.com
The pope seated during the Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament, Milan Cathedral, March 24, 2017.
After the pope’s piddle in a public urinal, this constitutes the second photographic PR faux pas by the Vatican communications team from his
one-day visit to Milan, though obviously they don't think so. Everyone knows by now that this pope does not even genuflect when he performs
the Consecration, nor has he been shown as pope to have knelt before the Most Blessed Sacrament. In view of that -
1. Why would CTV televise at all an Adoration in which the pope is the chief participant to rub in the fact of this unpleasant and most
unprecedented papal failing? Many Catholics have probably been thinking, “If the pope does not kneel for Adoration, so can I”.
2. Indeed, why televise an Adoration at all? Most Adorations last one hour, during which ‘nothing’ occurs except the silent near-motionless
adoration offered by the participants - it is not an event meant to be televised [other, perhaps, than the eve-of-conclusion Adoration at WYD
rallies since Benedict XVI introduced the practice in Cologne in 2005]. Then, televising what is basically an event where nothing visible 'happens'
becomes counter-productive because the announcers tend to make inane and entirely gratuitous remarks throughout the event to fill up dead air.
For the pope’s PR purposes, why not film him kneeling for a few seconds at a prie-Dieu at the start of the Adoration, then take shots
of the other participants and establishing shots of the event to make into a videoclip, rather than showing him seated as above?
3. It is hard to accept the explanation that kneeling or genuflection causes this pope such physical pain that he cannot bear to do
these acts at all, when for the past four years, on Maundy Thursday (and in a few weeks, yet again), we have seen him kneeling
to wash and wipe the feet of 12 persons – something that takes at least six minutes, assuming he needs 30 seconds for each act.
Let us say he does this at the cost of extreme physical pain, then ]why can he not offer the same sacrifice to the Lord that he
shows to these persons?
4. This is probably the ultimate in Bergoglian hypocrisy. Yet few have called him out on it. Certainly not the secular media
who are still in his thrall, and much less, his legion of Bergoglidolators.
Giuseppe Nardi at 'Eponymous Flower' has these additonal observations:
"The Pope did not visit the Blessed Sacrament on the main altar (which would have been a good and proper opportunity to provide visibility to the worthy worship of God, the climax of the liturgy and the cult), but in the crypt, almost as if it were a private act that is made in secret and in a hurry. [If only it had been kept 'secret'! But the photo looks to me like he was before the main altar.]
A prie dieu was not even provided. That is, the master of ceremonies of the cathedral had instructions not to set him one up at all. The pope does not want to use the prie dieu and apparently does not even have one on hand.
Francis did not even remove the white pileolus on his head before the Blessed Sacrament. It was once named Soli Deo (only for God) because it is only removed for God in the Sacrament.
Expression and body language, the folded hands, indicate that the pope is not taking a prayerful disposition before the Lord in prayer and worship, but just as if he were in a program and had to make an intermediate stop in the crypt which had annoyed him. The look seems apathetic as if he did not see God in the Most Blessed Sacrament.
[Modificato da TERESA BENEDETTA 07/04/2017 00:16] |
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