You Heard it Here First
Over time, I've gotten many disbelieving e.mails asking if it's really true that Archbishop Burke of St. Louis has been spotted wearing the cappa magna or if it was some kind of satire.....
Well, snowflakes, here's your proof -- tip to Don Jim, who was sent it by "a Benedictine reader" who took it on Christmas Eve last year, as the Archbishop entered the 11PM Carols Service at the Cathedral-Basilica of St. Louis.
The one thing I loved about the cappa before the reforms (which shorted it from 15ft to 12ft) was how, between All Saints Day and Easter (i.e. ecclesiastical winter) the silken mozzetta at the top would be replaced by an ermine one -- a practical move which made for some of the most goregous portraiture you've ever seen... To be honest, I wouldn't mind seeing that restored. But enjoy the photo.
(And, BTW, Jim surmises that the guy next to Burke is a canon, because of the black mozz w/ violet piping. He's not -- it's Msgr. Pins, the rector of the St. Louis Cathedral-Basilica. By rescript, the black, violet piped mozz may be worn by the rector-primus of a diocese... John Close has one, as well.)
And, for the curious, Philly really pulled Live 8 off -- I came home and the city wasn't bombed out. That's our standard for success... More soon...
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posted by Rocco Palmo at 13:28
2 Comments:
Now Rocco: I do wish we'd see more such fun and beauty in Seattle! What's wrong with a prelate of the Church dressing like a prelate of the Church? Some of us live in such grey, prosaic, lifeless, inartistic, dull, leaden, sodden, besotted, sooted, and swillish confines that we rejoice, nay, leap for rejoicing, at seeing such pagenatry unfold as a Prince of the Church enters upon the Kingdom. For in such a Kingdom, we are all a Royal Priesthood--so I for one am glad of it that at least one American dresses the part!
I'm with Perry on this one.
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