Spot the Difference
Starting from 2hrs 35 mins, we have Pope Francis's incensation of the Blessed Sacrament, our Eucharistic Lord.
Starting from 8 mins 41 seconds, we have Pope Benedict XVI's incensation of the Blessed Sacrament, our Eucharistic Lord.
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Kneeling before our Eucharistic Lord has always been important to Popes, as you can see.
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St. Francis of Assisi, in his "Letter to All Superiors of the Friars Minor" said:
'When the priest is offering sacrifice at the altar or the Blessed Sacrament is being carried about, everyone should kneel down and give praise, glory, and honor to our Lord and God, living and true.'
I liked the gesture that the Holy Father made in travelling humbly by foot as a pilgrim following the Lord in procession, as one of us, but would have preferred that the Holy Father had not broken with his predecessors on this occasion and had knelt before the Lord Jesus in adoration and worship. It goes without saying that kneeling before the Blessed Sacrament, in adoration, is a genuine gesture of humility before God.
Comments
He talks about God, he talks beautifully but it his take on particular aspects of the faith rather than the Catholic Tradition which we had from Benedict.
In the liturgy it is all him again, his simplicity, his humility, his lack of triumphalism, his innovations, his disregard for ancient customs, his break with the past, his break with his predecessors. The liturgy should point to God, not Fr Jorge!
Pope emeritus Benedict, though I love everything about him, isn't God!
Pope Francis isn't meant to be a carbon copy of B16!
Thank God for Fr Ray Blake who unlike many trads is not badmouthing Pope Francis!
I watched the whole procession from 1:40:00 on and it was beautiful, gentle, holy and Catholic!
Humbly, he knelt down before Him, thus teaching us that Jesus is God.
I am not bad-mouthing Pope Francis, just saying that it is sad that His Holiness did not kneel before the Holy of Holies.
The prie-dieu suggests that it was expected that His Holiness would kneel before Jesus, our Eucharistic Lord.
This is worship.
Feancis not kneeling has surely read that he has a bad knee. I said to someone that when Pope Francis visited Pope Benedict that they kneeled together in prayer.
That person said to me, yes but
getting back up is the hard part.
I said, yes that is true. The kneeling part was posted per video
but I don't think the getting up was. Msgr. Ganswein was close at
hand.
name. Laurence, you are right about that feet washing bit. I'm just trying to sort it out as you are.