Roman Holiday
Not mine, unfortunately, but the one for the five recently-appointed U.S. Archbishops who received the pallium from the Holy Father at St. Peter’s Basilica today. They are: Archbishops Timothy Dolan of New York, Allen Vigneron of Detroit, Gregory Aymond of New Orleans, George Lucas of Omaha, and Robert Carlson of St. Louis.
Here is the video from Catholic TV (I finally learned how to keep it from starting automatically as soon as the page loads, which was really annoying)
Part I:
Part II
There was a kind of contest to see which group could cheer their Archbishop loudest (I believe Dolan won, but then he apparently had the largest group — around 250 New Yorkers made it to Rome with him). He receives his pallium at 17:30 minutes into Part II.
Don’t forget that the word holiday originally meant “holy day.” And that it certainly was. On the celebratory side, though, everyone involved seems to have had a good time.
Check out what Archbishop Vigneron, and his friends and family (especially his two young nephews) wrote on the archdiocesan blog about their experiences in Rome.
Rocco, as usual, has great photos, and a description of Archbishop Dolan’s impromptu sightseeing tour with the members of his diocese. He seems to have taken Rome by storm much as he has New York. But then it’s already his home turf in a way; he spent some time as rector of the North American College there.
And well, how about a little quiz? I’ll post the answers tomorrow.
1) why did the Pope and the cardinals, bishops and archbishops celebrating Mass in St. Peter’s today all wear those beautiful red vestments?
2) Who was the only bishop/archbishop of New York so far who hasn’t been Irish?
3) How many of U.S. Archbishops receiving the pallium today have blogs? (this one I won’t know myself until I look it up).
update: here is a link to the answers
I’ve been pretty much absent from blogging lately, but that’s because I’ve been hard at work video editing. I expect I won’t be doing that much blogging for a while either, but will keep my readers in my thoughts.
