The canonization of Antônio de Sant'Anna Galvão is on TV right now. Don't ask why I'm watching it. Morbid curiosity and inability to sleep, I guess.
Anyway, what struck me is that there's this guy chanting musically, with the ENTIRE audience (peppered with nuns) singing "Alleluiah" back at him.
It took me a bit to figure out what they were doing, because all I could hear was REPETITION OMG, but apparently what they do is have this guy read off the name of every person who's ever been canonized.
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I'm sorry, to each his own, but that just struck me as weird.
Now the Pope is reading something. He doesn't even have to hold his own missal - two altar boys surround him, one with the missal, and one with a microphone. They've just put his Pope hat on (to hide his bunny ears, presumably).
I don't understand Catholicism.
THEY'RE CARRYING A TROWEL ON A GOLDEN TRAY! WTF?
The nuns in Brazil wear blue. And the Pope is blessing everyone who carried a trowel or goblet or sacred screw or whatever that stuff they had on pillows was.
I'm going to change the channel now. This is too much.
EDIT at 9:40am: OMG IT'S STILL GOING ON!
Little-known fact about me: I was Baptised as a Catholic. I started thinking things were fishy when I was the ripe old age of 5. I'm a born skeptic, obviously. But DAMN...a 2+ hour ceremony? I mean, I know it's the Pope, and I know they're canonizing someone, but can't they just send out a memo?
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