It's bad enough that anti-Pope Jorge Bergolio is wearing vestments that feature a symbol of pedophilia. But having it in blue is a huge screaming tell.
"But Dave, why is blue such a tell?" I'm so glad you asked!
There are certain colors that can be used for vestments, and they MUST.... that's MUST IN ALL CAPITAL LETTERS correspond with the liturgical calendar.
So, there is:
Green (for time after Epiphany and after Pentecost)
Red (Various feasts, Palm Sunday, Pentecost)
Purple/Violet (Advent and Lent plus some other holy days)
White (Christmas, Easter, various other feasts)
Black (Masses for the Dead, with a few exceptions)
Rose (two specific days)
Gold (can replace red, white or green)
Notice any color that's missing? Yeah. Blue. Now, in certain dioceses, such as Los Angeles, the priests are authorized to wear blue on feasts honoring the Virgin Mary. If anyone wonders why L.A. gets to do this, it's because Los Angeles is not the full name of the city. It's La Ciudad de la Reina de Los Angeles. The City of the Queen of The Angeles. In other terms, the city is consecrated to the Virgin Mary, which is why priests in L.A. can wear blue on specific Marian feast days, and ONLY ON THOSE DAYS. In fact, blue is such a rare color to use that it's not included in the list of liturgical colors, because for 99.9999999999% of all priests, they'll never wear it.
Now, in the extremely rare case that a priest may have blue vestments, they will be the on the Alb, Cincture, Stole or Chasuble. In the photos of the anti-Pope Jorge Bergolio, the blue is on a Cope. Did I mention a cope in the list of vestments that would be blue? No, because the cope is used for for specific purposes and not worn as a vestment for mass.
Therefore, what we see is the anti-Pope wearing a cope that is covered in symbols and colors that practically scream out pedophilia, and there is not a single liturgical reason for the cope to have those symbols or use those colors.
Let me repeat - there is not a single reason for a priest to have a cope with that symbol or in that color. Not one. And there is a reason behind every single garment the priest wears during mass. Therefore, if there is NOT a reason for those symbols or colors in the Catholic mass, then those colors and symbols are coming from some other place.
Like when you're a pedo who uses the Church to obtain pleasure and power and money, and you want to signal to all the other pedos that you're in their corner.
Pray for Pope Benedict, the true pope, that God may care for him and protect him in this time of turmoil.
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It's enough to make you weep...
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