Thanks for this one. I should have been going to bed at this hour, but felt too disgruntled coming away from a developing flame war of an especially annoying sort on a group of free-thinking, open-minded people who are against all forms of oppression and violence, and I knew that coming over here would get my head straight.
The point is to impress the peasants. I trust we are duly impressed. I further suspect that giggling toward the point of losing bladder control is the appropriate respect.
For a minute there I thought the organ was transitioning into "Lady of Spain."
ReplyDeleteI could have had curtains made for my whole house out of that lot!
ReplyDeletePlease! Lady of Spain! Curtains for the whole house! Don't make me laugh any more.
ReplyDeleteI should have made the post a caption competition.
Curtains for every church under your care, SR.
ReplyDeleteNot too late for an alternative caption competition.
And he only had one bridesmaid?
ReplyDeleteBex, welcome. Very good.
ReplyDeleteThe captions seem to be arriving unbidden.
This was the mass whose original intended celebrant, Dario, Cardinal Castrillon Hoyos, was replaced when a letter surfaced that he had written to a French bishop, praising him for refusing to report an accused pedophile priest to police.
ReplyDeleteOh. That mass. I remember.
ReplyDeleteI've seen freight trains shorter than that.
ReplyDeleteThanks for this one. I should have been going to bed at this hour, but felt too disgruntled coming away from a developing flame war of an especially annoying sort on a group of free-thinking, open-minded people who are against all forms of oppression and violence, and I knew that coming over here would get my head straight.
There she goes, Miss Vatican City.
ReplyDeleteEnough purple there for a whole synod of bishops.
For a while it seems like there was a traffic jam in the chancel, gettin' up those steps was a challenge and I thought the bridesmaid was gonna trip!
ReplyDeleteToo much focus on the accroutrements is not a good thing, but this I nearly peed when I saw this.
He really needed that guy in the back, just a freight trains often need a locomotive to push as well as pull.
ReplyDeleteI can hear Bill Mahar now; NEW RULE: a train should be no longer than the person is tall.
As I watched the bishop process, my thought was, "My goodness! Does the train never end?"
ReplyDeleteBy the way, the vestment is called the cappa magna. I'll bet Lapin could have told us that.
What is the point?
The point is to impress the peasants. I trust we are duly impressed. I further suspect that giggling toward the point of losing bladder control is the appropriate respect.
ReplyDeleteWith that thing he could house the peasants.
ReplyDeleteCounterlight, isn't this about the time you should trot out Fellini's Ecclesiastical Fashion Show?
Like waiting at a railroad crossing for the train that never ends....
ReplyDeleteYes, it's time for another view of the ecclesiastical fashion show. Counterlight!
Wilfied, your wish is my command...
ReplyDeletehttp://counterlightsrantsandblather1.blogspot.com/2010/07/ladies-how-vain-hollow.html
By papal decree, all trains much henceforth be long and wide enough to hide all the pedophile priests under a cardinal's protection.
ReplyDeleteI loved watching the faces on the people in the congregation.
ReplyDeleteMore congregation here, Elizabeth.
ReplyDeleteDahling, your dress is DIVINE!
ReplyDeleteOh this... just something I saw in the window... ;-)
ReplyDeleteI was just thinking, "Mine is bigger than yours!"
ReplyDeleteBooCat, the title of the post....
ReplyDeleteMore congregation here, Elizabeth.
ReplyDeleteLapin, not a single member of the congregation burst out laughing. I don't understand.
Counterlight, thanks.
I'm reminded of Percy Dovetonsils:
ReplyDelete"I detect an undertone of tittering. I'm only prepared to take thith theriouthly if you all are!"
Mark, I don't know. To me, the folks look properly awed but for the youth right at the end of the video, who might be suppressing a titter.
ReplyDeleteOh my goodness, that is ridiculous. Thankfully, my church is a super simple, Franciscan one.
ReplyDeleteCatherine, I think the train would not be much admired in the Roman Catholic churches in my area.
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