GOOD MORNING! - Papa-pix to start your day

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Papa at the loggia






From nhcatholicyouth.net

What a perfect start in the morning. Thank you for these great posters, lutheranguest.

Time for breakfast now. See you later.

Buona domenica a tutti.

Oh Lutherguest!!!
BLAM!STUNC!SMUACK!ZOINKS!
Happy 19th to you too!!!!!!!!!!!! Now I can get ready and go to mass

GRA(T)ZIE MILLE, LIV, for your usual excellent selection of Ratzi photos - in addition to things we've never seen before, such as the posters, you also manage to come up with new variants of pictures we have often seen before! I'm trying to gather as many photographs as I can have access to of Papa on the Loggia that April 19, as every second was unique. How I love these pictures....

Precious, precious Papa....I have been trying to write appropriate lyrics to change Puccini's "O mio babbino caro" (which has such a pure and lovely melody, especially as sung by Montserrat Caballe or Kiri Te Kanawa) to "O mio Papino caro"...
[For those who may not be familiar with it, the aria is sung by a young girl to her grandfather, "babbino", to exult in her love and delight over the object of her love. Well, once I change it to "Papino," the addressee and subject become one and the same!)

Anyway, let me post on this page Paparatzifan's enlargement of a cropped kna-bild from 1977 - that golden year, with Ratzi at his most ...dare I say it - sensuous!

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Ratzigirl's comment on posting this photo - "They shouldn't be putting
such dangerous pictures of IL BELLO on the Internet!!!" Its effect?
GALLOPING RATZINGERITIS!


Sihaya, Gloria, Simone, Sylvie, Beatrice, Papa B Fan,
all you photo-wizards out there, quick! - crop and enlarge this VISION
for all of us to dream by!

And in this other picture, Ratzi 'spettinato' ("uncombed", i.e.,
with ruffled hair) even way back! Ma che bello sei, Joseph!



Since good things come in threes, our third picture has Brueder Georg in it as well:

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Sihaya, Gloria, Simone, Sylvie, Beatrice, Papa B Fan,
all you photo-wizards out there, quick! - crop and enlarge this VISION
for all of us to dream by!

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Ok, so here we go....

Papa B Fan, you are killing me here ....

GREAT pic of our Papa !!!

I love the way you can see the man in the boy and the boy in the man...


Papa giving the world a much needed hug... Thank you Papa!

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Oh, Nan, these lovely pics ! I can’t stop loving him when he is looking like a little boy...he’s so sweet.....

Teresa, that’s a wonderful idea to change Puccini's "O mio babbino caro" to "O mio Papino caro", that hits me in the middle of my heart.

Holy smoke! I need to post the following for continuity. Sorry for anyone annoyed by duplication







OOps, sorry about the heading there, I meant to write "Hot news! Love God as Papa tells us to" - a typo, what was i thinking?

Oh yeah, Wulfrune - HOT indeed!!! What are you trying to do, girls, put me in permanent orbit....at this rate I'll never be back on terra firma!!!!!!!!!!!!! Whoooooooooooooooooosh! PHOOWAR!
I start off by looking at Lutheranguest's posters and sitting here going "WOW, wow and thrice wow!"- then scroll down......and I'm blown OUT OF MY MIND!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Our Italian friends are so right - Ratzingeritis is here to stay........I'm pleased to say!!!!
Un abbraccio a tutti voi....e a Papa!


We'd better be prepared for the next 19th and the one after that is THE ANNIVERSARY - fasten your seat belts!

Hi, Teresa, the whole day I’m huming „Oh mio Babbino(papino)caro”. I’ve bought the aria via Internet, the singer is Anna Netrebko, she has a wonderful voice and is a beautyful women.
Unfortunately it sounds a little worse, if I’m singing……

Teresa, is the word “papino” a real italien word or is it a word from our Ratzi Nomenclatura ?

DEAR SIMONE - 'PAPINO' is a 'legitimate' word built the way the Italian language makes diminutives or terms of endearment with the suffix -ino [or -ina, if feminine]. So babbo (grandfather) becomes "babbino," "Papa" (pope) or "papa" (dad) becomes Papino or papino, 'angiolo" (angel) becomes "angiolino", Simone- Simonina, Teresa-Teresina, Giuseppe-Giuseppino,Peppo-Peppino,
Benedetto-Benedettino (though benedettino also happens to be the form for the adjective Benedictine) etc.

And yes - that lovely melody can stay in the brain for days on end. It's one of those rare melodies that sound as though they had existed forever (the only analog I can think of in popular music is Paul McCartney's "Yesterday").

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Thank you, Teresa, and thank you for those sweet pics from VARIO-PRESS !

And here comes

NOSTRO 'PEPPINO' CARO !

NOSTRO PEPPINO CARO with recently cut hair. Sigh. When will they learn?

Quality photos from our not-yet-Papa’s trip to Poland in 2003.
I remember seeing pics from the same event earlier, thanks to Yvonne, our Polish Double-0 Agent.
Go to www.tarnow.pl/galeria/galeria_300/index.php for more pics.

Those are great pictures to weak up with ( a bit late perhaps but still on time)!!!

Thanks to all of you! You have made my day!

im just blown away by these pics!!!! how beautiful Papa is!! truly inside and out!

From the enlargements Nessuna so lovingly makes and posts in the FOTOGALERIA thread
of the Spanish section - a rare profile "look" for Papa, which shows off those lovely lashes!
Too bad this was taken when the Sweeney Todd of the Vatican had just done a hatchet job on
IL CIUFFO!)




And a complementary and complimentary profile that is very sweet:

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