(Fourth Installation of the Canonization of Pope St. Pius X at Catholic Pictures)
THE Shroud of Turin, revered as Jesus Christ’s burial cloth, will go on display in Turin in 2010, Pope Benedict XVI said today.
“Another solemn exhibition of the shroud” will take place in spring 2010, the pope said during an audience with pilgrims from Turin.
The display will be “a propitious occasion to contemplate this mysterious visage that speaks silently to men’s hearts, inviting them to recognise the face of God,” Benedict said.
I don’t believe in the shroud of Turin!
Humboldt, why do you not believe? Do you not think Jesus could miraculously manifest his image on a cloth and protect it from fading all these years? Our Lady of Guadalupe’s image is projected onto a cloak worn by a peasant in 1531, and that image is still intact today. Heaven works wonders.
There is significant science against belief in the authenticity of the Shroud. There is as well a cogent and factual rebuke of the authority of that science, especially a brilliant and substantial study by Brother Bruno Bonnet-Eymard (& M. l’Abbe Georges de Nantes) that can be found on the Counter-Reformation website.
One believes or one doesn’t. I find deep study of a question often yields unexpected light, if we set the heart with humility. It often seems the case with me, at any rate.
Humboldt: You don’t have to, but many do. Sometimes folks get really bent out of shape with “private revelations”, miraculous images, etc…
I don’t bother with them much either, but if the Church gives the thumbs up to a devotion, then it is is indeed permitted, as long as we don’t pin our Faith to such things.
Note the x-crossed stoles on the clerics holding the shroud. I thought bishops stoles were never crossed yet they wear mitres. Could these men be mitred arch-priests?
Way above my head Simple, perhaps some readers would know? I don’t think archpriests, per the palliums.
From the text beneath their feet they are archbishops, but it looks more like a drawing than a photo. not only is the crossed stole inaccurate, the pallium is not supposed to be worn over a cope.
“From the text beneath their feet they are archbishops,”
My, what good eyes you have! You can read that? I am getting old and need new glasses I think.
I had not caught the palliums – another good catch.