HOMILY OF INAUGURATION MASS OF BENEDICT XVI

EWTN.com ^ | 04-24-05 | Pope Benedict XVI

[Knitting A Conundrum]

I am much happier with the one they used at the funeral and the one they used at the installation mass...Crucifixes should communicate the suffering and sacrifice Jesus made...

[wideawake]

Only when we meet the living God in Christ do we know what life is. We are not some casual and meaningless product of evolution. Each of us is the result of a thought of God. Each of us is willed, each of us is loved, each of us is necessary.

This caused some of the usual suspects some apoplexy, I'll wager.

[ninenot]

This is going to be a barn-burner of a Papacy!

[Dr. Eckleburg]

This caused some of the usual suspects some apoplexy, I'll wager.

LOL. It always has.

God's grace through Trinitarian faith in Jesus Christ.

Amen to all who proclaim it.

[ninenot]

Frankly, I think that's a very good representation of the corpus. The head is slightly raised, thus the eyes engage us--in the same fashion as the Madonna's gaze at the end of the Gibson Passion.

The fingers are curling because of the natural physical forces in effect--it's a more "real" representation in that regard.

[AlbionGirl]

LOL!

[Pyro7480]

You beat me with pointing out that line. I was listening to the tape I made of the instillation Mass, while I was compiling my daily thread, and I rejoiced when I heard that line!

[maryz]

that grotesque crucifix carried for many years by his predecessor.

Crucifixion is a grotesque and horrible and shameful death. C.S. Lewis points out somewhere that the crucifixion did not show up as a theme in Christian art until the generations that had seen actual crucifixions had died.

[A.A. Cunningham]

[Judica me]

According to a colleague of mine, JP2's staff isn't Benedict XVI's style.

That's great news. I'll keep praying.

[Judica me]

Frankly, I think that's a very good representation of the corpus. The head is slightly raised, thus the eyes engage us--in the same fashion as the Madonna's gaze at the end of the Gibson Passion.

Is there any novelty you won't defend?

[ninenot]

Yeah.

SSPX

[Smartass]

THANKS FOR     THE PING!

[Salvation]

Or do you mean melt their hearts and listen?

[ELS]

I like that prayer. I think I'll put it on a card and keep it with me.

[Judica me]

Yeah. SSPX

Tradition is not a novelty.

[wideawake]

Tradition is not a novelty.

Schism over the liturgy is.

[ninenot]

Technically, JM is correct. Neither disobedience to the Pope, nor schism, is a "novelty."

However, SSPX IS a 'novelty;' they've only been around for about 2% of the lifetime of the Roman Catholic Church.

[St.Chuck]

Thanks for posting this. I had to leave for mass on the re-broadcast this morning, and then fell asleep during the re-rebroadcast this afternoon. I think it is a great homily, better read than heard translated. Thanks for disseminating the words of our great new pope.

[Judica me]

However, SSPX IS a 'novelty;' they've only been around for about 2% of the lifetime of the Roman Catholic Church.

What a coincidence. That's about the same amount of time that Catholics have been fulfilling their Sunday obligations a Lutheran communal meal services.