There was one moment in the popes funeral that I will never forget for the rest of my life.
It was when the men that carried the coffin away into the Petersdome, turned around for the last time and presented the coffin to the 4 million people, holding the coffin in a way that if the pope had still been alive and the coffin open, he could have seen the crowd clapping and cheering for him for minutes. That moment made my heart stop. I wish he could have seen that. I hope he did see it.
Before the funeral started, and yay something finally was in my time zone, there was a report about the funerals of prior popes, and there was apparently one pope where the embalmment went wrong, and his nose fell off while still lying in state. Good God. Yes, this is my rather inappropriate way to deal with things.
It is as it has always been. You dont know what you have until its gone.
12:24 am on April 9th, 2005
We didn’t get to see the funeral :(. I think there was a highlights programme. He must have been such an awesome figure, so inspirational to so many. Goodness, a man’s nose falling off…I wonder whether they picked it up :-\. your last sentence is so true, it really is.
4:16 am on April 9th, 2005
Thanks to my insomnia I was able to watch it live. I agree with you about that *moment*…all that APPLAUSE!!! What a fitting tribute to a former actor & a true people’s Pope!
I couldn’t help thinking that all those world leaders were sitting there thinking they should be so lucky when it’s their time. Maybe PEACE ain’t such a bad thing afterall?!
4:25 am on April 9th, 2005
oooh I agree with you about that moment. I was so impressed too. you´re right you never know what you have till it´s gone. true true.
12:53 pm on April 9th, 2005
*FAINTS* I dont want to know Nicki, it might have turned to dust before anyone was able to catch it.
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