[Magdalen] Three Kings.

[Scott Knitter]

I, too, marveled at the man in the sparkly hooded cope and wondered if he
was playing the role of a "wise man from the East." In fact, Cardinal
Woelki joked along these lines in his introduction. Here's who that was:

Moran Mor Baselios Cleemis Thottunkal is the current Major Archbishop of
the Syro-Malankara Catholic Church. He was named to the College of
Cardinals of the Catholic Church by Pope Benedict XVI on 24 November 2012.
At the moment of his selection, he was the youngest member of the College
of Cardinals.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baselios_Cleemis

I was so glad the wonderful Mädchenchor sang the Mass but a little
disappointed they didn't proceed into Mass chanting Tria sunt munera, about
the three gifts of the Magi. They do this every so often when they sing the
Mass on a Sunday, and hearing it and watching them proceed through the
smoke looks a bit like heaven to me. :)

On Mon, Jan 7, 2019 at 11:40 AM Marion Thompson <marionwhitevale at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Tallk about a cast of thousands!  Tell me about the bearded fellow wearing
> a helmet and standiing at the Cardinal’s right hand.
>
> Marion, a pilgrim
>
> Sent from Mail for Windows 10
>
> From: Scott Knitter
> Sent: Sunday, January 6, 2019 7:33 PM
> To: magdalen at herberthouse.org
> Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Three Kings.
>
> Epiphany pontifical Mass from Cologne Cathedral:
>
> https://www.domradio.de/video/pontifikalamt-am-hochfest-erscheinung-des-herrn-1
>
>
> On Sun, Jan 6, 2019 at 2:30 PM Marion Thompson <marionwhitevale at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > I’ll bet it was glorious.  I missed, as I always do, incense chez moi.
> > It’s a curious thing, that at our 8 a.m. Eucharist in trad. language, the
> > deeply trad. permanent server at that mass does bells, but we at 10:30
> are
> > very seldom so blessed.
> >
> > Marion, a pilgrim
> >
> > Sent from Mail for Windows 10
> >
> > From: Scott Knitter
> > Sent: Sunday, January 6, 2019 3:05 PM
> > To: magdalen at herberthouse.org
> > Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Three Kings.
> >
> > >>>>>>>>>>>
> > Serving today at Choral E&B at Ascension, Chicago. Solemn Mass was
> > glorious.
> >
> > On Sun, Jan 6, 2019, 12:41 PM cantor03--- via Magdalen <
> > magdalen at herberthouse.org wrote:
> >
> > > Epiphany Thoughts -
> > >
> > > Driving over to the Sachsenhausen section of Frankfurt/M just across
> > > theMain River and parking beneath the Plane trees done Louis XIV
> > Style,for
> > > the weekly organ recital by Helmut Walcha at the lovely Three
> KingsChurch
> > > each week was a ritual for me in the 1960's.
> > > And I won't forget celebrating Epiphany at the great medieval Shrine
> > > bygoldsmith Nicolas of Verdun for the reliquary of the Three Kings
> > > incavernous Cologne Cathedral.
> > > Why is it that there are so few churches dedicated to the Magi in
> > > the USA?
> > >
> > > David Strang.
> > >
> >
> >
>
> --
> Scott R. Knitter
> Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA
>
>

-- 
Scott R. Knitter
Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA