@Just me -Thank you very much! あけましておめでとうございます !!= Akemashite omedetou gozaimasu= Happy New Year to you!! I usually don't do nerdy things like this, but I thought it would be fun to wish you and everyone Happy New Year in Japanese, and English. I'm off from teaching all the way till Jan 9th, which is why I've checked this link so often. Unfortunately, for the last few days, for very sad reasons. My friends all have to work and are jealous that as a public H.S. teacher, I have 2 weeks Christmas break (Dec.23-Jan.9). They all went back to work the day after Christmas, and some had to work on Christmas day
Bergoglio didn't look very good this evening at the Vespers. The altar of St.Peter's looked beautiful, totally Catholic, but no Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament, which I though was always done.
I heard a report which is good actually....that yesterday (Friday), the Mass at St.John Lateran which was supposed to be celebrated for Benedict XVI's health, the Cardinal Vicar of Rome, heretic clone of Francis De Donatis originally said would be celebrated by just a bishop. But it brought such an outrage from the Roman clergy who thought that as Cardinal Vicar De Donatis should celebrate it,( that it would be an insult to Benedict otherwise,) DeDonatis suddenly reversed course and he said he would celebrate it. The Roman clergy pressured him to do it.
Now some idiots in the Vatican don't want Benedict XVI to be buried in papal white, but in either red as a cardinal, or just a black cassock underneath any vestments he is buried in. But that got cancelled out too.
Benedict XVI will be buried in the tomb originally of John XXIII.
Some people in Rome are surprised that Benedict XVI died, especially after the optomistic report yesterday. But my Uncle, who is a Cardiologist, had texted, and then told us at home at dinner, that at Benedict's age and with other ailments, when someone suffers massive renal failure (kidney), at that age, extraordinary means to keep them alive is not done. No dialysis, or any intervention. The person is allowed to just pass on quietly. My Uncle said on Wednesday when this news broke, that he would be surprised if Benedict XVI lived thru the weekend, because people with massive renal failure like that also start having multiple organ failure and heart failure and die within 3-4 days. He was right....unfortunatly.