A new "Benedictine arrangement" forrrr…. which Basilica?
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For the Leonardo da Vinci basilica of course!
Observe, Baron Munchausen, our prototype. RX, uh, Intercontinental, radar-sneaky, multi-warheaded nuclear missile.
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!
Ooops, sorry! I didn’t realize I was supposed to write a clever caption, not a description.
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”
Up, Up, and Away!
“And does Dr. William’s wear it during liturgies or only on state occasions?”
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.
Susan the Short, it is a glokenschpiel (pardon my spelling).
As a matter of fact, Ambassador, the old Ritual does have an obscure papal blessing for these candles thingees.
edwardo: you may fire when ready
LOL
Best of all your Holiness; it’s totally “green” because it’s wind-powered!
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**The Marvelous Toy** http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLYefZkOMB0&feature=related
“When it rises into the air, what prevents the cake from spinning?”
Now that ROCOR has been reconciled with the Moscow Patriarchate, the Russian Church also honors Bl. Sikorsky.
Beautiful. What the hell is it?
Erzgebirge!!
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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!
“… and, Holy Father, this is our modern architect’s vision of your new helipad atop the St. Peter’s Basilica.”
I bought it on eBay!
That’s a German Christmas Pyramid!
Green Pope tests prototype to cut carbon footprint of Vatican candles.
I found the perfect new diocese for Bishop Henry of Calgary.
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!
It’s the Transportable Multi-Stage Miniature Baldacchino (TMSMB) of course!
“Pope declines to bless cake-topper for wedding of LA’s new suffragan bishop”
Cool. The guy on the left is the German Federal President, Mr. Köhler.
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.
T minus 10..9..8..7..6..5..4..3..2..1.. and we have lift off the Roman missile!
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]….
Wow! A cake. You shouldn’t have. No, really, you shouldn’t have.