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For your good wishes, congratulations, thoughts at the end of this exciting day and looking forward to this next week.

Reflections, please!

Please post a pictures you might have also!

I am absolutely filled to overflowing with joy and excitement. I have prayed for his election. For many Christians, Pope John Paul the Great has been the only Pope they know and they might mistakenly think his Papacy was normative. Not so.

I expect this Papacy to be a time of great renewal. I expect Pope Benedict to restore to the Liturgy solemnity, beauty and authenticity. It is sadly the case that in the West, outside of the Indult, our Liturgy has become, for the most part, trite, banal, and mundane. This Pope, a Liturgical genius, will reorient the Liturgical ship. Thanks be to God.

I think his Papacy will be an occasion of divisiveness - thanks be to God. MANY in the Western Hierarchy will, quietly, be in fear at his election. They know their time is up. He will draw the lines truthfully and starkly between what is and isn't acceptable in Catholic practice. I predict he will call the AmBishops to task and remind them of their duty to Teach, Rule, and Sanctify. If not, I expect he will appoint a Legate for America - Please God.

IMO, the Holy Spirit is directing the Church to prepare for the final great battle (I don't think the prophecies of St. Malachy are reliable, btw) and Cardinal RAtzinger is the man for this time.

Don't expect him to discharge his Papal duties as did John Paul the Great. He will travel far less often and tolerate far less nonsense. He knows the "filthiness" that characterizes so much of the Western Church and he will begin the renewal of seminaries. I can't wait for the time when he publicly announces, "Oh, yeah, Notre Dame. Nice football team ya got their fellas but ya ain't Catholic. Trash the 1967 land of lakes mentality, sign the Mandatum and restore Catholicism immediately or else." Capiche?"

I am so excited and joyfull I can't contain myself. We have received a great Blessing and it is a wonderful time to be alive.

I loved his choice of "Benedict." Recall that the last Pope Benedict criticized Catholics for applying different labels to themsleves. He told us to imitate him, "Christian is my name, Catholic my surname." I haven't yet heard any commentators note that. That bodes well for us also. He will not be a Pope of the "trads," he will not be a Pope of the "Neos" he will be Pope of the Christian Catholic Church. Thanks be to God.

Kick butt, Pope Benedict XVI. No need to take names. We all know who they are.

:))))) May the Lord bless and guide Pope Benedict XVI, and may our Lady assist him in every way. May he restore liturgical disciple, clean up the liturgical mess, and may he clean up the seminaries. Already the wreck-o-vationists, chittiserites, and carpetbaggers are crying in their Evian and stamping their feet, so obviously something must be going right.