Do you like the catafalque that we put together (with the homespun tiara as the counterpoint!)? The occasion was our parish Missa Pro Defunctis (with black vestments and no flowers!) staged for the soul of Pope John Paul II, of blessed memory. In a flurry of incense, the whole image was immortal! The haunting sound of the Gregorian Requiem is our inheritance as the Catholics of today!
With a change in style to match the hour, as we were bereft of a true tiara, a couple of parishioners stepped up to the plate and made the tiara themselves (Chris Wells Fecit Romae MMV & Familia Maurizio Donavit MMV)! The catafalque reclined on a bier and reposed under the black funeral pall was an empty coffin surmounted on a plinth (no pallbearers or sleek hearse as they and the undertaker were at the actual lying-in-state at the Vatican!).
Oremus pro Pontifice nostro Ioanne Paulo! Corona aurea super caput eius!
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