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Helloooo, Fr. Z.! It must be amazing to be there. Looking forward to your reports. Prayers for your safe travels and good health.
Do you mean the chimney is not always there? I had no idea. I learn something every time I check in here!
EWTN has great coverage on all things Rome and has been showing how the chimney is built just for the conclave as well as the two stoves in the Sistine Chapel. Very informative.
A little light-hearted reflection on this penultimate day before the conclave:
‘Twas the Night Before Conclave.
‘Twas the night before Conclave
And all throughout Rome
Folk cast anxious eye
Past Saint Peter’s dome
To the roof of the Sistine
And the new chimney there
In the hope that white smoke
Would soon fill the air.
Whilst the Spirit of God,
The Heilege Geist,
Poured His seven-fold gifts
On the cardinals that night.
On Ouillet, Dolan, Scola, and Burke
On Scherer, Schoenborn, Erdo and Turk-
son, Wuerl, Ranjith, and one hundred five others
all praying the Rosary of our Blessed Mother.
For on the next morn, they’d offer a Mass,
And, in procession, through hallways they’d pass,
Singing Veni Sancte Spiritus, through the Sistine’s doors,
Which would then be locked, to open no more,
‘Til bells pealed and white smoke swirled into the sky,
And through Saint Peter’s Square echoed the cry,
“Habemus Papam!” and the new Holy Father
Stepped forth to speak and bless those who had gathered.
So let Christ’s faithful pray from the heart,
For non-cardinals, too, all must take part
In choosing Saint Peter’s successor, through prayer.
For Christ promised His Church: The gates of hell will not prevail.
Below is an excerpt from the poem “The Roman Tryptych: Meditations” by Blessed John Paul II.
In the excerpt, John Paul offers a powerful meditation on the conclave and on the role of the Sistine Chapel in the choosing of the pope:
http://allhands-ondeck.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-conclave-roman-tryptych-meditations.html
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Thanks for making me smile. :)