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TERESA BENEDETTA
00domenica 29 gennaio 2006 04:53
AGAIN, RATZI AT 50
Paparatzifan found another one in that RCK-274 B/W series on
Ratzi as newly-named Cardinal which Ratzigirl posted a few weeks ago.

Jil
00domenica 29 gennaio 2006 10:32
Re:

Scritto da: benefan 29/01/2006 2.00
BBRRRRR!!!


If Papa is wearing all those layers indoors, the Apostolic Palace must be freezing. Is it heated? When they renovated the papal apartments, I hope they installed a decent furnace. Poor Papa. Let's chip in and send him some long underwear with all our names embroidered on it.




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No, I can't write that ..... mmhh....öh.....anyway the idea is not bad but I'm not good at embroidering, can I paint something? [SM=g27835]
gracelp
00domenica 29 gennaio 2006 20:18
[SM=x40800] [SM=x40800] [SM=x40800] stunc Cardinal pics!!
TERESA BENEDETTA
00lunedì 30 gennaio 2006 02:38
THE HOLY SPIRIT HOVERS
Ratzigirl finally posted the picture I have been waiting for all day - and it is self-explanatory. Perhaps Simone or Sylvie will crop off the right side appropriately for a prayer card. And Papa so radiantly beautiful.....

benefan
00lunedì 30 gennaio 2006 02:51
THE BIRDS

Apparently, when the two kids and Papa released the two doves this morning, one flew off a little way but the other circled back above Papa's head and into his study. (If you listen to the end of today's angelus on the Vatican Radio website, you can hear the commotion and Papa laughing and saying that the dove wants to stay with the pope.) The kids can be seen in some of the Yahoo photos ducking and holding their hands over their heads as the bird flew back over them into the room. It finally was persuaded to fly out again but both birds landed on the ledge below Papa's window and just hung out there.

How does that song, "Close to You", by the Carpenters go? The part about the birds...
"Just like me, they want to be close to you."

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LeticiaV
00lunedì 30 gennaio 2006 04:42
The Birds
Dear Benfan,
Could I join you singing? ..." just like me, they want to be close to you " la, la ,la, la, close to you... dearest Papa
benefan
00lunedì 30 gennaio 2006 06:18
LOVE BIRDS

Leticia, what we need to do is all of us go to a papal audience together and you know how different priests will read out the names of various groups in attendance and those groups stand up and scream and wave? Some of them stand and sing a folk song or a serious choral piece and Papa always seems delighted. Well, our group could stand up and sing "Close to You" or at least the key lines. Do you think we could get his attention that way?
Wulfrune
00lunedì 30 gennaio 2006 09:56
I think he might prefer the Carpenters to the Four Tops - Maryjos used to say that some of the words of 'Reach Out, I'll be There' were applicable - there are a number of old tunes which no doubt are our secret favourites. [SM=g27816] [SM=g27828]
Simone55
00lunedì 30 gennaio 2006 10:57
THE HOLY SPIRIT HOVERS
Quick shot....




Lovely, lovely Papa !!!!!

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Jil
00lunedì 30 gennaio 2006 12:35
Re: The Birds

Scritto da: LeticiaV 30/01/2006 4.42
Dear Benfan,
Could I join you singing? ..." just like me, they want to be close to you " la, la ,la, la, close to you
... dearest Papa



May be we could also sing one of my favourite old songs.....

""If I had words, I'd make a day for you, give you a morning golden and new,
I would make this day last for all time, and give you a night dipped in moonshine".



mag6nideum
00lunedì 30 gennaio 2006 21:37
Re: the Holy Spirit hovers
What a beautiful picture... so exceptional. New favourite of mine.. THanks Simone andTteresa-Benedetta. [SM=x40790]
maryjos
00lunedì 30 gennaio 2006 23:52
I'm wide awake now!
Dear Friends,
Was just going to bed, when I decided to hit this great thread and WOW OH WOW!!!!! Those pics that have been added since I've had my computer back................! WHOOSH! Thanks a million. The one taken just before Papa was made an archbishop in 1977 is absolutely SMUACK, to say nothing of all the others....the one with eyes cast down,[How did you all know - that's how I love him best?!!!] the one where he's looking to the right [recent pics from Mass]...........I haven't saved them all yet.
Clare told me about the song idea, Benefan and everyone. Oh to go to an audience together and start singing!
I thought I may remember a poem about doves, but all I can think of is "The White Birds" by W.B. Yeats - it's beautiful. I can't quote it from memory.
Buona notte e sogni d'oro.....sogni Ratzosi!
Love, Mary x [SM=g27811]
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benefan
00martedì 31 gennaio 2006 01:47
SONGS FOR PAPA

Jil, your song sounds beautiful. Wulfrune, definitely not the Four Tops. Maryjos, glad you are back with us and like the song idea; however, I really think we missed a golden opportunity. At the audience just before the encyclical came out, Papa mentioned it and commented on what he was trying to accomplish with it. If we had only been there, as soon as he said, "Deus Caritas Est", we could all have stood up as a group and sung Dionne Warwick's version of "What the World Needs Now is Love, Sweet Love," complete with hand gestures: "Not just for some [SM=x40795] [SM=x40795] [SM=x40795] but for everyone." [SM=x40800] [SM=x40800]

The way to get to see Papa is to have a gimmick (my American upbringing is kicking in here). We could form a pop papal singing group, the Popettes. Mag6nedium, who is a retired choir director, could coach us. Those of us with no voice (me) could lip synch. I think this is our ticket to Papa, girls. What do you think?

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()Willow()
00martedì 31 gennaio 2006 03:05
Lip-synching
I'm afraid I would have to be among the lip-synchers as well. Hopefully we would have some singers amongst us, otherwise we could just use sign language which would, of course, make it a lot harder for us to attract Papa's attention.
TERESA BENEDETTA
00martedì 31 gennaio 2006 03:08
THE POPETTES!
Or maybe someone can come up with something as daring as the chant? song? reported by Sihaya from the January 11 audience, when some Italians (or Hispanics) sang something that went like - "Oh mamma, mamma, mamma/ Do you know why my heart beats so?/ I've seen Benedict, I've seen Benedict/ Oh mamma, I'm in love!" Remember, even nuns have been heard to shout out "Benedict, you are beautiful! We love you!"

I'm still wondering - when will someone in the media catch on to this phenomenon of a 79-year-old Papa 'Rubacuori' and report on it????? - on top, that is, of all the other phenomena he has already manifested!
benefan
00martedì 31 gennaio 2006 03:28
OH, MAMA, MAMA

I kind of like those lyrics, Teresa. I hope Papa could understand them. Maybe we could turn them into some sort of Gregorian chant. Or, failing that, rap. That would get some attention, especially since most of us are probably middle-aged and not black. Willow, I do think sign language just wouldn't work, unless we wore some sort of really eye-catching costumes. [SM=x40791]

Teresa, think how long it has taken the media to "sort of" realize what kind of good person Papa is. It will take at least that long for them to figure out he is a "chick magnet" if, in fact, they ever do figure it out. I mean all they have to do is watch people at one of his audiences. Even nuns. They are practically clawing over the top of people to grab at him.




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benefan
00martedì 31 gennaio 2006 03:37


Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens. Da..da..da...da..da..da.. and warm furry mittens. Wild geese that fly with the moon on their wings.

YOU are a few of our favorite things.


Sorry, couldn't resist.

TERESA BENEDETTA
00martedì 31 gennaio 2006 04:09
MAGNETIC MAJESTY
Chick magnet! Now that's a term!...The Popettes, and now, Ratzichicks, not to forget the original Benaddicts....

BUT...not to forget, either, that above all Papa is a magnet for Christ, here are more magnetic pictures Paparatzifan posted from the January 25 Vespers, majestic even with tousled hair:





By the way, I will always think of the Vespers pictures as Papa's Encyclical Day pictures.

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TERESA BENEDETTA
00martedì 31 gennaio 2006 04:23
DANKE VIELE, SIMONE!
Dear Simone - I just realized I was so excited this morning over the beautiful enlargement you did of Papa and the dove that the first thing I did was to post it in the main forum - and in the process, I forgot all about thanking you for yet another truly outstanding contribution to our gallery of unforgettable Ratzi images. So, A GREAT BIG GRA(T)ZIE, and I apologize for failing to acknowledge it right away. Forgive me...
NanMN
00martedì 31 gennaio 2006 04:35
Or, failing that, rap
Singing yes but there is no way [SM=g27825] [SM=g27820]: that I would ever rap for Papa [SM=g27825] [SM=g27820]: ... ohhhhh the thought is just disturbing on multiple levels!!!

It would have to be something worthy of grabbing the attention of MAGNETIC MAJESTY [SM=g27823] [SM=g27823] [SM=g27823] those pictures are indeed magnetic [SM=g27821] [SM=g27823] [SM=g27821] [SM=g27823] [SM=g27821] [SM=g27823]

Wulfrune
00martedì 31 gennaio 2006 12:03
That golden cope is one of my favourite things - the way it drapes, the gorgeous black and gold brocade detailing, and the heavy clasp - it's breathtaking. And it's new. I wonder who makes these vestments - are they hand sewn by nuns or whipped up on a sewing machine in a workshop?

Liked the Mamma Mamma song. Benefan had me LOL about a Gregorian Chant setting, or failing that, rap. If the former, maybe Big Georg could be persuaded to adapt it and get our little choir into shape? He's good at that kind of thing.

PS: When I wrote the above I hadn't noticed Benefan's message of earlier today and didn't realise Magnideum knows how to lick a choir into shape. Yeah! Let's rock!

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TERESA BENEDETTA
00mercoledì 1 febbraio 2006 04:13
LUMINOUS PAPA
If this is an official Vatican photo, we may get it eventually without the watermarks:

TERESA BENEDETTA
00mercoledì 1 febbraio 2006 19:00
THOSE EYES!
From Dinabella's private treasury of Ratzi-pics, some of which she posted earlier in the main forum (FOTO DA KARDINALE), I don't think I have seen this stunner before:

TERESA BENEDETTA
00mercoledì 1 febbraio 2006 20:02
SYLVIE'S DREAM
Papa inspires another literary flight by Sylvie. Here in translation from the French -



Good morning…
My name is Silvia. I have just turned 5 months old and all I can do is crawl on the floor.
When I go out, it is always with Mama.
Today she dolled me up, with perfume yet, and settled me into the baby-carrier, firmly tied around her waist.
I think something big will take place, but I am sleepy.
I slept as she walked briskly into the fresh morning air.

When I wake up, I hear a steady hum, as in a beehive.
So many grown-ups laughing and talking… then they start to scream!
Are they all hungry at the same time? I am fine! I had my bottle on time…
What are they screaming about? Did the nipple (of the milk bottle) slip? Did someone take their teddy bear?

Mama too seems agitated – I’m still sleepy, but now she’s holding me up and away from her warm body…
Oooh…I don’t like this at all – where will she put me?
I will raise a racket to show my disapproval!
But I don’t have time...

Terrified, I feel two large hands take me from Mama’s hands…
Mama!!! – I am being kidnapped!…I want to move my hands in protest but… I see..
Two hands, strong but gentle at the same time, have brought me face to face with… an angel!
He is tall, all in white, radiantly beautiful: his eyes look at me very tenderly and he smiles…

Mama always says to me, “Sleep, my angel” – I must be very beautiful if I look like that…
I open my eyes wide and I feel two light and caressing hands – like Mama’s – on my head:
The angel brings his head close to me and I feel a gentle kiss on my forehead.
I feel as if I am bathed in the warmth of love – I want to clutch his white garment
and have a long cuddle with him, but the hands which hold me now draw me back…
The beautiful angel smiles, and I feel like I am in flight…

Mama is smiling, she is happy because she has her little Silvia back.
“Well, my little doll, you have seen him, yes?”

Seen what, who? Surely she does not know that I have flown to Paradise, that I was kissed
by the most beautiful of angels and that I have come down too fast…
I gurgle a few sounds, but she does not seem to understand.
I must learn fast to speak like she does, so I can tell her everything…

For now, I dream of that meeting… I seem to see him everywhere, even there, just behind
that big chair. He is singing… something beautiful… I hear him… I fall asleep….


Sylvie adds:
Thanks to Sihaya whose photograph (above) inspired this impossible dream.
But I would love to be a baby again (with my adult mind) to be carried by him whom
we see here, so sweet and kind, white like my angel, so radiant, so wonderful in this photo...


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Simone55
00mercoledì 1 febbraio 2006 22:36
Re. SYLVIE'S DREAM
Sylvie, what a wonderful, deeply moving story !
This is the right dream, when I got to bed now, thinking about to be a baby ........ [SM=x40790] [SM=x40790]

Teresa, thank you again for your translation, you're a "Sprachgenie" !
TERESA BENEDETTA
00mercoledì 1 febbraio 2006 22:57
FROM TODAY'S AUDIENCE
Every detail in this picture is extraordinary!


P.S. for Simone - Papa has several inches of both arms showing!!
NanMN
00giovedì 2 febbraio 2006 05:10
WOW
Great photos today! Loved Baby Silvia's adventures too!!! Sweet little ones kissed by Papa B "Sweet" 16 [SM=g27836] [SM=g27836] [SM=g27836]
maryjos
00giovedì 2 febbraio 2006 21:05
Beautiful dream!
Nan, didn't I say how wonderful it would be to be a baby!
And now we have this truly moving story/ poem from Sylvie.
Is this the baby who was handed right across in the aisle of the Paul VI Hall yesterday? Sylvie has it so right - the hands must seem large to a baby, and strong they are indeed.....and the white garments.............the appearance like an angel [SM=x40801] - oh yes, what an angel!!!!
Thank you so much Teresa for this translation.
VV IL PAPA!
Love to you all - Mary x [SM=g27811]

P.S. Super photo of Papa from yesterday's audience! That watch looks new. Is it the one his brother, Georg, gave him for Christmas, I wonder? Wish I could ask him..... [SM=g27816]

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maryjos
00giovedì 2 febbraio 2006 21:33
The Sound of Music rules again!!!
Benefan - I just went back and read your quote from "My Favourite Things". Amazing how "that film" is suddenly OK by me again!!!!!!
".....when I'm feeling sad, I simply remember my FAVOURITE THING [PERSON] and then I don't feel so bad!"
Also: "Edelweiss, edelweiss, every morning you greet me. Small and white [well, not so small!], clean and bright, you look HAPPY to meet me!"
There's also "Doh, Re, Mi" - Georg Ratzinger's first lesson to potential members of the Domspatzen.
And "Something Good"......um, I'll not quote from that one, but you know the words! [SM=g27816] [SM=g27816] [SM=g27816]

From Cloud Nine, Love, Mary x [SM=g27811]
NanMN
00venerdì 3 febbraio 2006 02:45
Nan, didn't I say how wonderful it would be to be a baby!
Yes you did Mary. And you are oh so right [SM=x40800]

Papa has such... nice... uh huh... hands-wrists [SM=g27821] [SM=g27816] [SM=g27821] [SM=g27816] [SM=g27821] [SM=g27816] uh huh
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