ACTION ITEM! Terrific video of 1941 Vatican City and help for a seminarian!m UPDATED
Over at Rorate I spotted on a rare visit a simply terrific video posted on YouTube about Vatican City in the time of Pius XII during WWII.
It is simply terrific.
Also, there is a note at Rorate that I cannot pass over, so I repeat it here. The one who posted the video to YouTube is a seminarian in Malaysia. He needs some financial support for his tuition. Help him out?
Tell him Fr. Z sent you.
He is pretty far from his goal!
Things I liked in the video.
- The cotta griccia at a baptism
- monks and friars with the corona
- cards on the altars
- priests in the flat hat
- the library, with a seminarian or perhaps priest in the Propaganda cassock
- glimpses of the Noble Guard
- The Clementine chapel where I said my first Mass.
- Many places, offices, etc., inside Vatican City which are very familiar after many years that most people don’t get to see.
- shots of the refectory of the Casa Santa Maria.
- jammed aula with seminarians
- When the narrator stopped talking about Jesuits
- Pius removed his soli Deo at the Holy Name
- The woman at the end, touching her rosary to the tomb of Pius XI… a sight which must fill libs with confusion and rage… it’s perfect and it sums up everything we love and they detest.
And other things. Yes, this is an exercise in nostalgia… which is NOT the reason why we desire the traditional liturgical forms!
Right now there are 2089 views.
And the seminarians fundraising amount… let’s MOVE THAT NUMBER! C’mon!
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