Friday, February 22, 2008

First Holy Mass of Pius XII...

Fr. Eugenio Pacelli was ordained a priest in 1899. The next day he celebrated Mass here in the Borghese Chapel of the Patriarchal Basilica of Saint Mary Major.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

What a magnificent altar. Having seen that, it is easy to understand why there are so few vocations to the priesthood when we went from that which in every way was an expression to glorify God, to the spiritually bankrupt Protestant style service of today (The Novus Ordo), and the horrible flat wooden or slab marble "facing the people" Vatican II table altars.