What Does The Prayer Really Say?
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The other day I was giving a little tour to a group of Americans beginning with the magnificent Saint Maria Maggiore.   You saw my photo of the mosaics a couple days back.

In the confession before the altar, where the relics of the manger of the Lord are preserved, there is a marble statue of Bl. Pius XI.  He is in a cotta griccia.  We had a discussion about what griccia is.  Here is a great photo in marble.

A podcazt is ready.  There is a reading of one of Leo the Great’s sermons on the Passion (s. 66  3-4) preached on 10 April 453, Good Friday.  I also talk about the Notification from the CDF about Jon Sobrino, SJ.  As a bonus there is a rant about confessions on Good Friday and Holy Saturday. 

 

 07_03_20 Leo I sermon 66 on the Passion; about Sobrino; about confessions [25:50m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

On Thursday 29 March Pope Benedict XVI will hear confessions in St. Peter’s Basilica.  There will be a penance liturgy for young people of the Diocese of Rome with individual confessions heard by priests.  The Pope will use one of the old wooden confessionals in the Basilica as his late predecessor used to do on Good Friday.