Did your ordination look like this?

I know that mine didn’t.

Uber-traditionalist Cardinal Raymond Burke ordained three new deacons for the Institute of Christ the King at their seminary near Florence on January 30th.

You can see more snapshots and learn more at the New Liturgical Movement website.  A cappa magna was there, too!

Meantime, want to sample something 180 degrees from the above?  To get an idea of just how wide-ranging our Catholic liturgy can be, check out this report from CNS, with an audio dispatch from Barb Fraze, sharing some of the jubilant bongo-banging mass of Kenya.

Further proof, if any were needed, that it’s a big church.