{"id":9108,"date":"2025-04-23T02:40:34","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T02:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/?p=9108"},"modified":"2025-04-23T02:40:36","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T02:40:36","slug":"pope-francis-ceremony-in-saint-marthas-house-chapel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/pope-francis-ceremony-in-saint-marthas-house-chapel\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis: Ceremony in Saint Martha&#8217;s House Chapel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Noted:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vaticannews.va\/en\/pope\/news\/2025-04\/pope-francis-death-ascertainment-cardinal-camerlengo-farrell.html\">Cardinal Farrell officially ascertains death of Pope Francis<\/a>&#8221; <br>Vatican News (April 22, 2025) [includes embedded YouTube video]<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vaticannews.va\/en\/pope\/news\/2025-04\/pope-francis-funeral-saturday-novemdiales-lie-in-state.html\">Pope Francis&#8217; body to lie in state until funeral on Saturday morning<\/a>&#8221; <br>Vatican News (April 22, 2025)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>We&#8217;ve been handing the death of popes for something like two millennia now, so we have procedures for this sort of thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ewlfYIhFWms?si=6GgXu_ufsPMY8ISz\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I mentioned his death yesterday. (Monday, it&#8217;s still Tuesday here in Minnesota.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A few seconds of the 35-second video, showing &#8220;the chapel of the Casa Santa Marta&#8221;, was the first I&#8217;d seen of that place. The architecture is contemporary, the ceremony ancient.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That mix of what&#8217;s good in the old and the new is something I like about the Catholic Church. And being a Catholic. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I still don&#8217;t have much more to say, except that I&#8217;m glad he could die at the place he&#8217;d picked as &#8220;home&#8221;: the Domus Sanctae Marthae, &#8220;Saint Martha&#8217;s House&#8221;, on the south side of Vatican City.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I didn&#8217;t have much to say Monday, either:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/easter-monday-pope-francis-has-died\/\">Easter Monday: Pope Francis Has Died<\/a>&#8220;<br>(April 21, 2025)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Noted: We&#8217;ve been handing the death of popes for something like two millennia now, so we have procedures for this sort of thing. I mentioned his death yesterday. (Monday, it&#8217;s still Tuesday here in Minnesota.) 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