The Vatican lasts the details for the conclave that the Next Wednesday, May 7 at 11:30, Argentine time. Just hours after the vote that will choose the Successor of Pope Francisfrom the Holy See shared more intimacies of the preparations and published a video of the “Room of tears.”
In detail, the images show a small hidden room attached to the Sistine Chapel, where who is chosen Papa will receive his first investiture. After this, the new Supreme Pontiff will look out Through a balcony to greet all the faithful who are present in the Plaza de San Pedro.
Conclave: The imposing room of tears
The conclave to choose the successor of Pope Francis It will be the first to occur in total coexistence with a development and boom of social networks in the world. The first consequences of this already feel and that is that The Holy See shared, During the last weeks, images, videos and information as never before in the history of the Catholic Church.
One of the secrets that the Holy See shared – and that went viral in recent days – is a video of what is known as “The room of tears”. In a nutshell: the room where the newly chosen Pope retires to receive his first investiture.
The Supreme Pontiff, at the time of its assumption, puts the traditional white cassock and then greet all the faithful present in the square. In detail, in the video different papal garments can be seen in addition to rosaries and an austere furniture.
Is that the imposing of the room does not lie in The luxuries or physical beauty of the room. Actually, the room receives its name since Many of the potatoes spilled tears while they were waiting to appear, for the first time, before the world.
Conclave in the Vatican: the officials and officers who will participate in the election of the new Pope swore
Less than a day from the start of the conclave that will define the successor of Pope Francis, a series of officials and laity – disigned and authorized by Cardinal Camarlengo with the three cardinals attending— They lent an oath of confidentiality last Monday in the Paulina Chapel, located in the third lodge of the Apostolic Palace. This step Formally marks the commitment of absolute silence that governs throughout the process of choice of the new Supreme Pontiff.
While there are 135 cardinals with the right to vote, The Vatican confirmed that those present in this papal election will finally be.
In addition to the cardinals, the conclave also requires the intervention of other actors – eclesiastics and lay – that fulfill operational and technical functions during the voting days. All of them swore to maintain the total secret about what happens inside doors. The commitment, pronounced individually, establishes:
“I promise and I swear to observe the absolute secret with whom it is not part of the school of the voters, and this perpetually, unless it receives special faculties expressly given by the new pontiff chosen or by its successors, about everything that directly or indirectly concerns the votes and the scrutiny for the choice of the Pontiff.
I also promise and I swear that I will refrain from using any instrument of recording, audition or vision of how much, during the election period, it develops within the scope of the Vatican city, and particularly of what directly or indirectly has somehow has to do with the operations related to the choice itself.
I declare to issue this oath aware that an infraction of it would entail for me the penalty of excommunication can sentence reserved to the Apostolic Headquarters. Thus God helps me and these holy gospels that I play with my hand. “
This oath is part of the protocols established by the Apostolic Constitution Universi Dominici Gregis, promulgated in 1996 by John Paul II, that regulates each stage of the conclave. Within that framework, the absolute secret is imposed as a guiding principle: Audio or video recordings are prohibited, as well as any type of external communication with the cardinals. The violation of this standard implies a automatic excommunication directly imposed by the Holy See.
Source: Ambito
