3/23/13

Sic transit gloria mundi



Three times the procession was stopped, while proceeding to the altar, and a bundle of flax lashed to a gilded staff was burnt before the newly elected pontiff, while a master of ceremonies said:



Pater Sancte, sic transit gloria mundi.

Holy Father, thus passes the glory of the world.


as a symbolic caution to set aside materialism and vanity.





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