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A magnificent, historic scene, as the world converges on St. Peter's Square – and could a better case have been made for the beauty and majesty of the classic Roman liturgy in the universal language of Latin?
For more sacred music in the spirit of the day, a Korean site has sound files of the Litany of Easter Eve and of Mozart's Ave Verum Corpus among other works.
The Anchoress:I DO love all the chanting - particularly the chanting of the Gospel in Latin, and I thought the priest chanted it very well. I recall once visiting an Orthodox church, Latin rite, and pretty much the whole Mass was chanted. Between the icons, the chanting...for an hour it felt like we'd left earth and gone to heaven. (Ditto -- Ed.)
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They were live-blogging the funeral this morning at The Corner at NRO and this dispatch went up at 5:38 am:
HARD AT WORK [K. J. Lopez] My Rome guy Charles Collins points out: "One million people just kneeled for the consecration (keep in mind that in the US, we kneel early). They are kneeling on cobblestones, not padded kneelers, in a huge crowd."
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