GOOD MORNING! - Papa-pix to start your day

Yet another one of those splendid close-ups of Pap taken by the Photogallery photo-whizzes,
found on the site benediktxvi.ru (a Russian site maintained by russki who pops up now and then
on the main forum). Keep it it in mind if your links disappear to the Photogallery, AFP, Corbis,
Profimedia, etc. The site stores most of the best photos in more or less chronological groupings.

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here comes the sun!!! What a wonderful way to start my day!

Yes, I've had that site bookmarked a while back. Thanks Teresa. Lots of beautiful goodies in there! If only I could read Russian.

I know we posted the "solo" picture on the left
a few days ago, but I can't help re-posting it
alongside the original picture from which it
was cropped.
Thought: If priests are married to the Church,
and the Church (and all in it) their bride,
then Ratzi is the Universal Bridegroom!

TERESA, GET A GRIP HERE

Your exercise in logic on Papa as bridegroom is going to lead into forbidden territory soon. Must turn one's thoughts elsewhere.

AKA "The Universal Bridegroom" As if we needed anymore reasons. Thank you so much for feeding my Benaddiction!!!

I will certainly have sweet dreams tonight!

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its morning here..what a nice way to wake up and see these wonderful pics!!

Yup!!! Lovely pics!!! Thanks!!!!!

Oh my God, what fantastic pics.

Now I have to go to bed and think about the "perfect bridegroom"






(First of all I have to translate the word bridegroom. As I read it first in the post, I thought, it means "bridgeroom". And Brigde would be Papa's newest hobby )

'BRAUTIGAM"!

Oh oh oh !!!!! Don't do this to a girl just as she's off to dreamland........I never seem to get to this thread in the morning, so it's my place of Buona Notte! Those last five pics, Teresa Benedetta are totally STUNC!!!!!!!!!!!
What's a girl to do?
This is the stuff that dreams are made of............
Dream a little dream of Joseph Ratzinger.............
Nan,where are you? We should collapse in a hopeless heap together!
Or go into orbit...........lift off! Oops - I knew it!
Buona Notte, liebe und freude - Mary x
[Next stop - splash down in the Vatican Gardens again...mmmmmmmm]

I'm right here, beside you in orbit!!!

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Next stop - splash down in the Vatican Gardens again...mmmmmmmm

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Oh good, will you show me some good hiding places...please?

GIRLS,

You know he takes long daily walks in the Vatican gardens without fail. Hide well!

I HAVE NO WORDS - or only to gasp out, thank you, Simone, for this amazing video-cap.
(Reader, please go to UFFICIO for other photos captured by our Simone from a German year-end docu).


Those killer eyelashes and....

From Sihaya and Ratzigirl, respectively:

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wowowee!!!

In the absence of any new photos (since Angelus yesterday) from the regular sources, Ratzigirl has discovered a Czech "photo-bank" from which this picture comes:

Almost missed this, from Ratzigirl: