Silence In Hyde Park
Posted by Rebecca Teti in Faith on Tuesday, September 21, 2010 12:00 PM
Not to belabor the point, but Pope Benedict XVI really won the people of the United Kingdom over.
Here’s an incredible story about that.
Read it if you need some cheering up.
I bring this up again, though, because it highlights one of the most astonishing moments of the trip, more powerful, perhaps, than his many beautiful and pitch-perfect addresses.
That was the moment of exposition of the Blessed Sacrament during the vigil service at Hyde Park. An eyewitness describes it:
I was watching on two live internet feeds simultaneously, one from the BBC with commentary and the other from the UK bishops’ website without and as the ornate monstrance was placed on the altar, and for that brief time, even the BBC chatterers fell silent.
A member of Fr. Allan’s community was at the park and said that almost no one was on their feet. He called it “astonishing” that nearly 100,000 people knelt and prayed. “The response, the silence… To go from ecstatic cheers one moment, welcoming the pope, to profound silence the next, it was really remarkable.”
At the name of Jesus, every knee shall bow;
Ev’ry tongue confess Him King of Glory now….
Every so often in life we get a little hint of what is to come—and isn’t it splendid?
( P.S. Here’s a link to every address the Holy Father gave while in the UK. And here’s the post from which I nabbed the picture.)
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