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A description of the Cardinal Castrillon’s entrance for the Pontifical Solemn High Mass today at Westminster Cathedral. It sounds as though it was magnificent!
The sanctuary was at its most beautiful - with the focus of Bentley’s magnificently designed high altar with baldaccino uninterrupted. The vestments were the finest in the Cathedral, with coped ministers. The Cardinal in full cappa magna was met at the West Door by the robed clergy in attendance - there were diocesan deacons, priests and monsignori, religious, priests of traditional orders, the Provost of the Westminster Chapter, and the Administrator of Westminster Cathedral - all in full regalia. Various Knights of Malta were also on hand to greet the Cardinal. Diocesan priests, religious sisters, and seminarians were also among the congregation. All genuflected as the Cardinal processed up to the Blessed Sacrament chapel accompanied to the Elgar’s glorious Ecce Sacerdos Magnus.
St. Louis-Marie de Montfort,
Pope St. Pius X,
St. Joseph,
St. Ambrose of Milan,
St. Thomas Aquinas,
St. Francis (and St. Clare),
St. Catherine of Siena,
St. Alphonsus Ligouri,
St. John Chrysostom,
A very wide selection of photos of Cardinal Castrillon Hoyos’s visit are now on the usual web site at http://www.traditionalcatholic.org.uk
A colleague and I were the LMS’s official photographers and thus had access to places that the general pubic do not - hence some very different views of the ceremonies.