Posted on 06/28/2021 9:20:12 AM PDT by Marchmain
ROME – This week marks the 70th anniversary of retired Pope Benedict XVI’s ordination as a priest – an anniversary his personal secretary says will be celebrated with things of personal significance: The liturgy, and former members of his late brother’s choir.
Speaking to Rome Reports, German Archbishop Georg Gänswein, head of the Prefecture for the Papal Household and Benedict XVI’s personal secretary, said the choir was a surprise for Benedict.
For Benedict XVI, “surprises are always related to the liturgy,” Gänswein said, noting that for the June 29 anniversary, “We’ve invited a group of former members of the choir from Regensburg who learned to sing alongside his brother.”
By now, the chorists, who were children at the time of their participation in the Regensburg choir, are between 40 and 60 years old, and “some of them will sing in the chapel during Mass,” Gänswein said.
Gänswein was among the speakers for a June 23 webinar organized by Rome Reports to mark the anniversary of Benedict’s ordination.
Ordained a priest June 29, 1951, Benedict XVI is 94 years old, and has been living a secluded life of retirement since his resignation from the papacy in February 2013.
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What happened to "Fight the good fight of faith; take hold of the eternal life to which you were called, and for which you made the good confession in the presence of many witnesses."?
He resigned like Clemenza had a heart attack.
The Communist Sodomites forced him out.
For someone who resigned due to “health reasons” 8 years ago - he is quite long-lived, hale and hearty.
Seems like we’ve been given more LIES.
I would love to know how they got him to resign.
The ImPopester was obviously installed to destroy the moral authority of the Catholic church and bring it into line with the New World Order.
Hale and hearty?? Have you seen recent pictures of him? He is EXTREMELY frail. Those that have met with him lately say he can barely speak above a whisper.
It got lost in the wafer concept
And what is the difference with Pius XII or JPII in their last years?
> I would love to know how they got him to resign. <
I can’t see Benedict folding to a physical threat. So I had to have been blackmail. What else could it have been?
But that doesn’t mean Benedict necessarily did anything bad. It could have been, “Benedict, we have damning evidence against this associate of yours. If you go away, the evidence goes away. Deal?”
He’s a great disappointment to me. Was he pressured out? Probably yes. I believe so. Did he step down knowing that marxist heretics would take over the church? Yes, he did that. Pressured or not, he stepped aside and surrendered custody of the church to heretics.
I said nothing about the appropriateness of his resignation. I was addressing your assertion that Benedict is “hale and hearty.”
He’s 94 years old. He’s doing well for that age. Better than younger Popes who were incapacitated at the end. He’s survived, has published, and has travelled, 8+ years since he quit for ostensibly being gravely ill.
Benedict surrendered to the apostates. Why should he be admired?
This was at least part of the story.
Personally, I believe that the whole resignation was agreed upon between the conservative modernists and the liberal modernists. It created the confusion we see now.
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