On this day seven years ago...

...I was staying in my father's house and, shortly after getting up, I switched on the television. (Television in the morning is something I normally regard as an abomination!) I found the Sky News Channel and they seemed to be showing mass live from the Sistine Chapel with the new Pope and the cardinals. Pope Benedict was preaching and I listened. 
Suddenly it dawned upon me that he was not speaking Italian but LATIN! 
 In my joy I shouted out "Habemus papam! We have a pope...a Catholic pope! We can all be Catholics again!"

DEO GRATIAS!

Memories!

I saw this programme and began to realise that the cardinals had done a spiffing job once again in my lifetime!

God Bless our Pope!

(Ignore reference to Scottish Psalter- which relates to another tune for this hymn found in the Westminster Hymnal.)

Tu es Petrus!

Remembering Seven Years Ago

Victimae Paschali Laudes 2

(Apologies for advert)

Victimae Paschali Laudes 1

A French take on the Victimae Paschali Laudes (Warning: not for the purists!)

Would ya believe it?

From BBC News

"During the Mass, the Pope also baptised eight new converts by pouring water over their bowed heads."

Well, there's a novelty! They obviously use real experts to give the religious news!

A Happy Easter...

...to all my visitors!

Surrexit Dominus vere, alleluia

Ecce Lignum Crucis

Palm Sunday

Gloria laus et honor tibi sit:

Hymn in honour of Christ the King by Theodulph of Orleans proper to the procession of Palm Sunday! Learn it here!