Thursday, October 16
Long Live the Pope! And a Word on Those Dancing Nuns.
Don Jim has the full lyrics of that gloriously Ultramontane (and perhaps slightly over-the-top) turn-of-the-century hymn Long Live the Pope. He's posted it in honor of the Holy Father's twenty-fifth anniversary on the Throne of Peter, which is today. Ad multos annos, Your Holiness. If there's anyone we can all sing "All hail! The Sheperd-King of Rome!" without snickering or disagreement, I would hope it would be our very own JP II...not to knock your Pius XIIs or John XXIIIs, of course, or even old John XX (who seems to have been a medieval bookkeeping error). But the Holy Father is cool. He, as they say, rocks, and I mean that in a Thou art Peter way. I don't think we understand how blessed we are to have him, and to have had him for so long. There's plenty of rumors circulating about his health. So, as well as praying for his well-being, let's also not forget to appreciate him while we can.
And there's yet more fun stuff via Fr. Tucker. Scroll down further after Long Live the Pope for the story (initially broken in the blogosphere by our very own Fr. Sibley) about the latest kooky manifestation of "Mother Teresa-mania" in Italy. I give you, Madre Teresa: La Musicale. Possibly produced by Messrs. Bialystock and Bloom? I've been seeing posters for it all over Rome for weeks now. I try very hard not to laugh, for her sake. What I really want to know more about, however, are the details on the choreography in the big Untouchables Tap Dance Number. Italy's tops for weirdness, I tell ya.
Don Jim has the full lyrics of that gloriously Ultramontane (and perhaps slightly over-the-top) turn-of-the-century hymn Long Live the Pope. He's posted it in honor of the Holy Father's twenty-fifth anniversary on the Throne of Peter, which is today. Ad multos annos, Your Holiness. If there's anyone we can all sing "All hail! The Sheperd-King of Rome!" without snickering or disagreement, I would hope it would be our very own JP II...not to knock your Pius XIIs or John XXIIIs, of course, or even old John XX (who seems to have been a medieval bookkeeping error). But the Holy Father is cool. He, as they say, rocks, and I mean that in a Thou art Peter way. I don't think we understand how blessed we are to have him, and to have had him for so long. There's plenty of rumors circulating about his health. So, as well as praying for his well-being, let's also not forget to appreciate him while we can.
And there's yet more fun stuff via Fr. Tucker. Scroll down further after Long Live the Pope for the story (initially broken in the blogosphere by our very own Fr. Sibley) about the latest kooky manifestation of "Mother Teresa-mania" in Italy. I give you, Madre Teresa: La Musicale. Possibly produced by Messrs. Bialystock and Bloom? I've been seeing posters for it all over Rome for weeks now. I try very hard not to laugh, for her sake. What I really want to know more about, however, are the details on the choreography in the big Untouchables Tap Dance Number. Italy's tops for weirdness, I tell ya.
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