Our Lady of Aparecida - Brasilia 2010 - first part - Mass

I taped a video with the Mass and Procession of Our Lady of Aparecida, patroness of Brazil. We don't care very much about Independence Day (September the 7th), but the Holiday dedicated to our patroness Our Lady of Aparecida (October 12th) tops anything you could ever imagine.

A helicopter of Brasilia's Military Police had loads of rose petals fall from sky on the public at sunset.

The procession of people praying the Rosary with lit candles in the evening was kilometric.

The fireworks at the end of everything lasted for fifteen minutes!

Afterwards, there were members of a youth group that simply couldn't stop singing and yelling praises to Jesus and to Our Lady.

It was beautiful!

The Mass was concelebrated by Brasilia's Archbishop João Bráz de Aviz, by Brazilian Cardinal and former Brasilia's Archbishop José Freire Falcão, and by many other bishops and almost all of Brasilia's priests. Many seminarians were also present. As well as a few authorities, including the candidates for Brasilia's Government and their families.

Talking about it, we'll have elections on the 31st, and Dom João was quite rough on politicians and on candidates during the homily. He was applauded intensely by the congregation. He yelled at corrupt politicians and candidates who keep stealing public money and who are against Christian values and emphasized that more than 90% of Brazilian electors are Christians and that over 70% are against abortion. He criticized harshly those candidates who said they were in favour of legalizing abortion and then "changed opinion" because polls were showing they were losing votes. Dom João is a great Bishop!

Many of Brasilia's sights are shown on the background of the video. In case you would like to see some pictures before seeing the video, and even do some reading, here you go a few useful links:
Cathedral of Brasilia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathedra...
The Congress: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Nat...
Ministries Esplanade: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bras%C3%...
Brasilia TV Tower: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brasilia...

It was on October 12th, but the video turned out to be very long: 40 minutes. It took me until today so that I could find the time to edit it to make it short, so that watching it won't be too boring. I tried to make it as short as I could. The result was 15 minutes long. I hope you'll enjoy it.

Short version - the whole thing in 15 min: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_JucbEs9UY

Unedited version:
first part - Mass (11 min): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haoA0l0xPHU
second part - Procession (15 min): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZTIunLWuig
third and last part - Fireworks (15 min): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKQi8goojh8

I'm awfully sorry I didn't subtitle them. There was no way I would have time to do it.

P.S.: I have just finished reading Rome Sweet Home by Scott and Kimberly Hahn. It is a must! I had already read The Lamb's Supper by Scott Hahn. Can't wait till I read their other books. A truly catholic person simply cannot not have read those! Or at least these two of them: The Lamb's Supper and Rome Sweet Home.

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