[Salvation]

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Tributes and memories only.

[Salvation]

 

[TomGuy]

Being moved in preparation for public viewing

[wideawake]

When Paul VI died, I was sent home early from Catholic school and I was sent home early one month later when John Paul I died and my mother got angry at me the second time because she thought I was joking when I told her why.

Then the Pope came to America and my mother went to see him. She was very impressed and moved.

Then the Pope was almost assassinated and my mother cried and I didn't know why anyone would do that.

As a teenager I remember feeling full of pride because our Holy Father (Father, that's right, Father) was staring down atheistic Communism.

I went to see him when he came to America in 1995 and I have never been in such an enormous crowd of people who were simultaneously so happy and so courteous to one another. His presence and words were quite moving.

When I was married in 1999 I went to Rome for my honeymoon and attended a papal audience. He was very weak even then and could not stand to speak, but he offered kind words in six languages and stayed past the official hour to bless a group of children from South Korea and give them rosaries.

John Paul II, pray for us.

[Luddite Patent Counsel]

JPII's example of suffering with dignity and grace serves as a bright light in a very dark world. Please pray for the repose of his soul.

[Convert from ECUSA]

He was one of the instruments used by the Lord to bring down Soviet bolshevism. Only one of that triuvimvirate is now left, Lady Margaret Thatcher. I believe JP II's support for the Solidarity movement in Poland, coupled with his visit in 1979, started the ball rolling for the end of bolshevism in Europe and Russia. Poppa, may you see the Face of Christ and be at peace in His Kingdom. From Virginia, God bless you real good.

[baseballmom]

Great post, Salvation. Thanks for the ping.

[Romish_Papist]

God bless our HOly Father

[Norman Bates]

Requiem aeternam dona eis, Domine: et lux perpetua luceat eis. Te decet hymnus, Deus, in Sion, et tibi reddetur votum in Jerusalem: Exaudi orationem meam, ad te omnis caro veniet. Requiem aeternam dona eis, Domine, et lux perpetua luceat eis. Amen.

Domine Jesu Christe, Rex gloriae, libera animas omnium fidelium defunctorum de poenis inferni et de profundo lacu: libera eas de ore leonis, ne absorbeat eas tartarus, ne cadant in obscurum: sed signifer sanctus Michael repraesentet eas in lucem sanctum: quam olim Abrahae promisisti et semini ejus. Amen.

Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi: dona eis requiem.
Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi: dona eis requiem.
Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi: dona eis requiem sempiternam. Amen.

Joannes Paulus PP. II †
18.V.1920 - 2.IV.2005


He was my Pope. I knew no other.

Now we pray for him. Soon I will ask him to pray for us.

Eternal rest grant unto him O Lord and let the perpetual Light shine upon him. May his Soul and the souls of all the faithful departed, through the Mercy of God, rest in peace. "AMEN."

[Non-Sequitur]

I was rereading a couple of books that were written back in 1978 when John Paul I and John Paul II were selected. It mentioned that an estimated 250,000 people viewed Paul VI as he lay in state. Something like 20 times as many will have viewed John Paul II by the time they shut down the viewing lines.

[trisham]

Thank you for the ping. This is a very moving tribute to Pope John Paul II.

Thanks to all who posted photos of the Pope.