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Offline TKGS

Re: Empty Casket Funeral for Benedict XVI???
« Reply #5 on: January 06, 2023, 07:48:18 AM »
Speaking of funerals, I may have missed the reason for this, but does anyone know why the celebrants at the Vatican funeral wore red vestments? 
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Offline Mr G

Re: Empty Casket Funeral for Benedict XVI???
« Reply #6 on: January 06, 2023, 09:49:00 AM »
Quote from: AMDGJMJ on January 05, 2023, 08:47:21 PM
Is an empty Casket Funeral for someone who is having a normal funeral in a different country a normal thing or a weird novus ordo ritual?

My novus ordo family shared this with me today:

"Mass for Pope Benedict XIV at Saint John the Baptist Roman Catholic Church- took the picture afterwards.  Priest and Deacon wore black."
I remember at the SSPX chapel I went to, there was a funeral Mass for JPII with the empty "casket" (it was actually 2 x 4 framed to size)
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Offline AMDGJMJ

Re: Empty Casket Funeral for Benedict XVI???
« Reply #7 on: January 06, 2023, 10:13:52 AM »
Quote from: TKGS on January 06, 2023, 07:48:18 AM
Speaking of funerals, I may have missed the reason for this, but does anyone know why the celebrants at the Vatican funeral wore red vestments?
I found an article stating that Paul VI changed the practice of black vestments to red for Papal funerals:

https://acatholiclife.blogspot.com/2009/08/the-traditional-funeral-rites-for.html

It is a long article FYI.

Apparently there is an ancient traditional of Pope's being buried in red.  I found a picture of Pius IX as such. But the red vestments for the celebrant is a new thing.

I also found pictures from Pius XII's funeral Mass.  He was dressed in red but the celebrant was in black.

I will try and attach the pictures in another post in a few minutes.
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Offline AMDGJMJ

Re: Empty Casket Funeral for Benedict XVI???
« Reply #8 on: January 06, 2023, 10:19:14 AM »
Pope Pius IX buried in red...
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Offline AMDGJMJ

Re: Empty Casket Funeral for Benedict XVI???
« Reply #9 on: January 06, 2023, 10:20:18 AM »
Pius XII Requiem Mass:
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