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    5 December 2009

    Caption call

    CATEGORY: SESSIUNCULA — Fr. John Zuhlsdorf @ 6:50 pm

    A new "Benedictine arrangement" forrrr…. which Basilica? 

    • • • • • •

    31 Comments

    1. For the Leonardo da Vinci basilica of course!

      Comment by Fr. Marie-Paul — 5 December 2009 @ 6:55 pm

    2. Observe, Baron Munchausen, our prototype. RX, uh, Intercontinental, radar-sneaky, multi-warheaded nuclear missile.

      Comment by FrCharles — 5 December 2009 @ 7:13 pm

    3. At first I thought it was some architect’s rendering of a basilica, but the candles give it away…it’s one of those Christmas decorations where the heat of the flames causes the propeller blades to circulate, and, hopefully, all the little figurines inside turn like a merry-go-round.

      My Polish pastor has several smaller ones on display in the rectory.

      Note, too, the little reindeer on the base.

      It’s a Christmas whirligiggy-thingy!

      Comment by Susan the Short — 5 December 2009 @ 7:21 pm

    4. Ooops, sorry! I didn’t realize I was supposed to write a clever caption, not a description.

      Comment by Susan the Short — 5 December 2009 @ 7:22 pm

    5. The Holy Father’s ‘gift’ to Fr Richard McBrien:) the figurines are configured to tap the following message out in morse code “say the black, do the red”

      Comment by Jack Hughes — 5 December 2009 @ 7:25 pm

    6. Up, Up, and Away!

      Comment by William — 5 December 2009 @ 7:25 pm

    7. “And does Dr. William’s wear it during liturgies or only on state occasions?”

      Comment by frobuaidhe — 5 December 2009 @ 8:11 pm

    8. As of the First Sunday of Advent, the new Liturgical Abuse Eradicator was fully functional. In order to demonstrate the capabilities of the Liturgical Abuse Eradicator, Eminence, you may fire when ready.

      Comment by edwardo3 — 5 December 2009 @ 8:36 pm

    9. Susan the Short, it is a glokenschpiel (pardon my spelling).

      Comment by edwardo3 — 5 December 2009 @ 8:37 pm

    10. As a matter of fact, Ambassador, the old Ritual does have an obscure papal blessing for these candles thingees.

      Comment by RichR — 5 December 2009 @ 8:58 pm

    11. edwardo: you may fire when ready

      LOL

      Comment by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf — 5 December 2009 @ 10:07 pm

    12. Best of all your Holiness; it’s totally “green” because it’s wind-powered!

      Comment by Subvet — 5 December 2009 @ 11:41 pm

    13. http://i46.tinypic.com/31520oz.jpg

      Comment by Vincenzo — 6 December 2009 @ 1:36 am

    14. The Marvelous Toy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLYefZkOMB0&feature=related

      Comment by Makemeaspar — 6 December 2009 @ 1:55 am

    15. “When it rises into the air, what prevents the cake from spinning?”

      Comment by Kerry — 6 December 2009 @ 8:16 am

    16. Now that ROCOR has been reconciled with the Moscow Patriarchate, the Russian Church also honors Bl. Sikorsky.

      Comment by chonak — 6 December 2009 @ 8:55 am

    17. Beautiful. What the hell is it?

      Comment by Kimberly — 6 December 2009 @ 9:16 am

    18. Erzgebirge!!

      http://www.saint-statues.com/servlet/Categories

      You gan get them directly from germany at several different price points and levels of complexity there….I have been wanting some all year….

      Thanks for the photo Padre!

      Comment by mattdiem — 6 December 2009 @ 9:44 am

    19. “... and, Holy Father, this is our modern architect’s vision of your new helipad atop the St. Peter’s Basilica.”

      Comment by ghp95134 — 6 December 2009 @ 10:55 am

    20. I bought it on eBay!

      Comment by joecct77 — 6 December 2009 @ 1:05 pm

    21. That’s a German Christmas Pyramid!

      Comment by Mariana — 6 December 2009 @ 1:46 pm

    22. Green Pope tests prototype to cut carbon footprint of Vatican candles.

      Comment by Genna — 6 December 2009 @ 2:45 pm

    23. I found the perfect new diocese for Bishop Henry of Calgary.

      Comment by M J Ryan — 6 December 2009 @ 2:49 pm

    24. Wunderbar! What a splendid improvement for the Christmas children’s Mass. It is so much better than liturgical dancing, I do hope it will catch on!

      Comment by Widukind — 6 December 2009 @ 6:31 pm

    25. It’s the Transportable Multi-Stage Miniature Baldacchino (TMSMB) of course!

      Comment by Unvanquished — 7 December 2009 @ 7:09 am

    26. “Pope declines to bless cake-topper for wedding of LA’s new suffragan bishop”

      Comment by Allan S. — 7 December 2009 @ 8:39 am

    27. Cool. The guy on the left is the German Federal President, Mr. Köhler.

      Comment by EchoRomeo — 7 December 2009 @ 8:46 am

    28. Father, I don’t mean to rain on the parade, but there appears to be some problem with images in Firefox again.

      Also (having looked the picture up in IE), those devices are actually really cool: they work like Susan said and can actually be quite striking. But from that angle it does look a little odd.

      Comment by Titus — 7 December 2009 @ 10:00 am

    29. T minus 10..9..8..7..6..5..4..3..2..1.. and we have lift off the Roman missile!

      Comment by LouieJ — 7 December 2009 @ 10:23 am

    30. No caption….I’m kind of echoing Kimberly’s comment…what the ‘heck’ is that?

      Vincenzo strikes again, though! Had to brush the tears from my eyes to keep from laughing out loud in the library! Wish I were that creative….[sigh]....

      Comment by irishgirl — 7 December 2009 @ 11:27 am

    31. Wow! A cake. You shouldn’t have. No, really, you shouldn’t have.

      Comment by catholicmidwest — 7 December 2009 @ 2:14 pm

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