Another photo from yesterday - one I had thought the Vatican would release right away. Note that the chapel altar is against the wall. i.e., configured for the ad orientem Mass. Of course, the private chapel in the Apostolic Palace was also configured this way, and the one photo sequence we saw from the 2007 RAI documentary of Benedict XVI saying Mass in that chapel was an ad-orientem Mass (though most likely using the Novus Ordo missal).
The photo comes from the May 4 issue of L'Osservatore Romano, since the event took place around 5 p.m. Thursday, May 2, two hours after the May 3 issue of the OR had already been printed. The accompanying story is merely a re=working of the bulletin issued Thursday afternoon by the Vatican Press Office.
[Modificato da TERESA BENEDETTA 05/05/2013 02:41]