Fr. Zuhlsdorf, "
Staff breaks? Staff it out!" (Fr. Z's Blog, June 6, 2015):
So… Pope goes to Sarajevo. He was to use the Paul VI style pastoral staff/crucifix along with his most favoritest vestments, which we all are now so very very familiar. Via Vatican Insider.
Problem: the Paul VI staff broke!
Oh dear… what a shame!
Thinking fast, Msgr. Guido Marini, head of the Pope’s liturgy staff, working against the clock, fixed it the staff with … I’m not making this up… adhesive tape.
One of my friends from Rome tweeted: “Even Paul VI must have thought, ‘I don’t want my ferula to be part of this.”
I dunno… which would be better. Enter without a staff, or enter with a staff fixed with sticky tape?
Symbolic of the Ecumenical Vatican Council and its Novus Ordo held together like its greying religious and pew dissenters with adhesive tape.
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