CATHOLIC VESTMENTS: Papal and general

I posted this first in POPE-POURRI because of its nature as news.

At thenewliturgicalmovement.blogspot.com/
one contributor posted several video-caps
of the Ash Wednesday rites on the Aventine yesterday
with the headline
The Return of the Roman Chasuble to Papal Liturgies
posted by Gregor Kollmorgen

This is one of the sceeenshots he posted to make his point:


One of the pictures shows the classic 'shield-shaped' back of the cope
that the Pope wore for the penitential procession to Santa Sabina:



Whereupon, NLM's chief blogger Shawn Tribe added the following very informative post:

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Following up Gregor's images, I thought I would share a couple of more images from today's papal Mass with a little historical comparison.



The style of the chasuble seems to fit the guidelines issued by St. Charles Borromeo, with the sleeves not being as long as the full flowing form, but not as short as the more typical baroque form of the Roman chasuble. What the Pope was wearing today is very much akin to what we have seen St. Ignatius or Loyola or St. Philip Neri pictured in (above).




Other features of the Mass:
"Benedictine" altar arrangement.
7th candle.
Cardinal Deacons.

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I have not yet seen an article identifying the two Cardinal Deacons,
and I will post the names as soon as I get them.

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Some time in 2005, I discovered the blog DAPPLED THINGS by Fr. Jim Tucker, who was posting, among other things, very authoritative information on liturgical matters, including Church vestments. And I remember e-mailing him after he did a post on 'Roman chasubles', also called 'fiddleback chasubles' - the classic chasuble form used before the poncho-like chasubles of the Novus Ordo.

So I went back today to his files to get these two pictures - one of JP-II in a rare picture of him as Pope wearing a Roman chasuble (as well as a vestment called the 'fanon', the striped cloth around his shoulder, which he used a number of times, but which we have yet to see Pope Benedict use), and the other of Cardinal Ratzinger on one of the occasions when he celebrated the Tridentine Mass and, of course, the Roman chasuble that goes with it.




Here is the link to Fr. Jim's archives with photos and information about liturgical vestments.
dappledphotos.blogspot.com/

Fr. Jim stopped his main blog last December, but said he would carry on with the photoblog part of it.