PAPAL THREE

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Papal Visit ~ Day 3 ~ Hyde Park Prayer Vigil.
By Uncle Monty at the Vigil.
Papal Photos By Alex Albion.
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Unexpectedly, the popemobile stopped within
just feet of me as Pope Benedict XVI personally
received a baby handed to him to be kissed and
blessed with some 350,000 pilgrims cheering and
looking on among London’s densely packed crowds
at the Hyde Park Prayer Vigil on the last day, but
one, of the Holy Father’s official four-day state visit
to the United Kingdom. I could now almost reach

over and touch the pope himself as he dutifully

stood-up to receive the child at the opened window

of his bullet-proof popemobile that was surrounded

by security agents ever leary of some public protester
acting out against the 83-year old German-born
Vicar of Christ. The moment was almost surreal

for me, aside from being an extraordinary and un-

forgetable one that I couldn’t have planned any

better by being, has it was, at the perfect and un-

planned spot to record such a moving and papal

moment that I shall never again see

repeated in my own life time.
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A Future Priest, Perhaps?

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Beside that, there was the five-hour long stage per-

formances leading upto to the personal arrival of

His Holiness at the Papal Prayer Vigil that saw both

high and low class performances of dancers, singers,

skits, and musical treats. However, there was too

much of the same gymnastics that was presented

as “dancing” when my “kitty” called “Potty” could

have easily outperformed such poor and mechanical

performers and ticks much better with hands down.
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The Papal Stage at Hyde Park Prayer Vigil, 2010.

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The vigil was also so swamped with too many African
immigrants and foreigners that it was hard to know if
it was English at all. Christian charity was hard to find,
too. Many of the Africans and foreigners were decidedly

rude and aggressive and demanding that they be given

priority over others wanting to get to the front row

despite being too late to get there themselves. It took

me a couple of hours to land up on the first row myself

by patiently dealing with the largest crowds I have ever

encountered before at any where else. Whatever, I

still got there by determination and stamina to get

myself where I wanted to be by being polite and

considerate to others above all else. Some of the

kids, too, were clearly more polite and kind than

some of their edgy elders at the Hyde Park

Prayer Vigil.
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His Holiness Sat Throned on the Papal Stage.

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Speaking English in his deep guttural German accent,

Pope Benedict came over as a rare man to be reckon

with religiously, intellectually, and ecclesiastically, as

he spoke as “God’s Rottweiler,” if you will, to the

massive crowds as dusk had now fallen to full night

time at London’s autumntide in mid-September that

was also on the same evening as the Jewish Day

of Atonement or Yom Kippur.

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The constrast between Benedict and the late beloved

John Paul II was like day and night for many, although

I think Benedict has been a good choice after the char-

ismastic and splendid and resounding 26-year long

papacy of the Great JPII. Although an avid

Anglican myself, I much perfer JPII to the

somewhat rather stiff personality of Benedict.

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Pope faces biggest protest yet on Britain visit.
http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle08.asp?xfile=data/international/2010/September/international_September874.xml&section=international

(I personally never did see the biggest protest against the

pope has I arrived at Hyde Park around 1:30pm and stayed

there until 8.30pm at the close of the Papal Prayer Vigil.

I had no desire to neither to see such nor to add

any kind of credence to such an anti-pope protest.)

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Pope Decries 'Marginalization' of Religion
By Lawrence D. Jones. The Christian Post.
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No one can appreciate, by the way, the immense

draw of any pope – even that of Benedict’s unwarm

personality and anti-pope protests against him –

unless you’ve been there to actually see a pope. It

is akin to the draw of an American President in

which crowds are drawn simply because the person

is a president. Again, unless you’ve been there to

see a president you cannot appreciate or experience

what such is really like. I have been present at
presidents and popes, so I think I can understand

the draw and why others do not. For me, "the

taste" is irresisible, while for others it is not.

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Another touching momemt at the Hyde Park Prayer

Vigil was the Mizen Family who spoke movingly

of their 16 year-old son Jimmy Mizen’s mindless

London stabbing and murder two years ago by yet

another knife-weilding youthful immigrant thug.

Jimmy Mizen: killer convicted of murder - Telegraph

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Mass immigration to the UK has brought untold
murders, grave stabbings, street crime, black

youth postcode gangs, spreading of Aids, and

broad day robberies of the kind never before

seen in England until New Labour deliberately

inflicted its socialistic vision of turning Great

Britain into a savage and hideous Third World

country that is has now become in some urban

spots. When Cardinal Walter Kasper spoke of

Heathrow looking like a Third World Country he

was, of course, absolutely right aside from being

shunned from the papal visit because of what he

honestly said. The British news media called it

a "gaffe," while I call it the truth of what the

dear Cardinal said. You cannot speak critically

of today's Broken Britain without being con-

demned and branded as a racist, bigot, Nazi,

and/or Fascist despite the fact that Britain has

been turned into a massive dumping ground for

the world's unwanted weirdos, rejects, spongers,

criminals, nutcases, and low-life!
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And, when Monsignor John Armitage stood-up

to speak on the Papal Stage he soon sounded

to me more like he was presenting some kind

of Socialist Manifeso rather than a religious

homily. Perhaps him and socialism go to-

gether much like what was once called

"Liberation Theology."

MGR JOHN ARMITAGE FOR BISHOP OF HEXHAM & NEWCASTLE DIOCESE Facebook

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There was, however, two things that I was rather

pleased with at the prayer vigil: Sir Edward

Elgar's magnetic music of "Pomp & Circumstance"

and his British patriotic piece of "Land of Hope

& Glory" brought me great pleasure. Although

I suspect that many of the bobbing heads

among the big crowd didn't know it was Elgar

or that he was a quintessential English

Catholic composer whose classical music

I never tire of hearing. Bravo!

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Then I come now to the superb 480-page

pocket-size printed MAGNIFICAT, that

contains all the liturgies, Eucharistic prayers,

Communion hymns, and state events of the

Papal Visit of Pope Benedict XVI to the

United Kingdom. Each page is glorious

reading to me with its missal character

and essence. I've gotten thru about 100

pages so far, but I will savour the rest of

MAGNIFICAT long after the pope has

safely return home to the Holy See.

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Big TV Screen View of the 350,000 Pilgrims.

I have so much enjoyed Pope Benedict's visit to us. And, especially his presence at Lambeth Palace and at the huge Papal Prayer Vigil at London's world famous Hyde Park. What was also so wonderful about the papal visit was it was free for the most part save for a few quid here and there to help underwrite the huge costs of such an important state visit. Certainly, the overkill security and policing was evident and very costly when deployed in the name of protecting the pope by thousands upon thousands of British cops of every kind along with private security companies that must have made a big killing in huge profits thankz to the pope's visit. What positive impact Benedict's four-day state visit to the UK will have on reducing the de-Christianization of Anglican England seems to me to be minimal at best because of the already stated irreligiosity of the English people and the forced infusion of alien religions like Islam in its vile anti-Christian stand that is allowed to flourish freely in the hideous name of multiculturalism and multiracialism inside Bloody Broken Britain. I doubt we will see another UK papal visit in this 21st century of growing secularism and atheism unless something dramatically changes the sorrowful and soulless generations to come. While now, England is pretty much dead from what I can see. We are the "New Africa" displacing everything that was once my beloved Albion. Plus, we're being overwhelmed by those of alien cultures, foreign attitudes, strange religions, odd tongues, weird lifestyles, anti-English beliefs, and non-stop legal and illegal immigration.

Truly, Uncle Monty. +16th Sunday after Trinity, 2010.

Papal Visit ~ Final Day 4
The Beautification of John Henry Newman.

Pope's visit culminates with beatification of Cardinal Newman

Service for Victorian cleric in front of 50,000 at windswept park in Birmingham. Nuns arrive at Cofton Park, Birmingham where the pope oversaw a service beatifying Cardinal Newman.
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