The Sabbath Chapter 286: His singing
Pahamas Court, March 20, 355 of the Chaos Calendar
As the birthplace of Hengguang Sect, Pahamastion is the holy land of all Hengguang Sect believers. Even the believers of East Hengguang Sect recognize Pahamastin as the "origin" in their hearts.
All the buildings are white. The most important building in the entire Star City is the Holy See, which occupies a very large area. About 60,000 clerical staff live here every year, and the "red" bishops take turns to "reside" here , the annual quota is three, except for these floating people, the Archbishop of Xihengguang Sect lives here permanently, just like a spiritual symbol, since he successfully became the Archbishop 200 years ago, he has been living here, never again Been to any other star city. His room is on the highest floor of the main building of the Holy See, and all who come to visit can see his window from downstairs. If you are lucky, you can also see the archbishop standing at the window and waving to everyone.
Everyone who came to "visit"
That's right, people can visit here at any time, only need to pay the environmental tax, and there is no need to pay any additional sightseeing fees, but it is a bit difficult to live here, except for the Holy See in the city There are also many small white buildings, which are indeed for people to live in. However, believers are given priority to live in, and ordinary people can apply. However, according to the current progress, the reservation has been scheduled for 20 years.
=-=Fortunately, everyone’s lifespan is long nowadays, 20 years is not impossible
Most people still choose to live in a few star cities that are very close to Pahamas. They live in other star cities. It only takes one to two hours to reach Pahamas, and there is no delay!
On March 20, as usual, there were many tourists sightseeing in the white Vatican building.
The works of art donated by believers can be seen everywhere in the Holy See. These donations are exquisite, and they are also very qualified exhibits except for their religious significance. In fact, the Pahamas Court itself is ranked first in the Sky Tower. In the museum, precious artists of all ages are used here as ordinary objects, and time and use behavior endow them with more mellow precipitation. Visitors carefully appreciate them, while making small exclamations that cannot be suppressed.
No way, even if there is no one to manage and all visits are self-help, but the building itself is so solemn and solemn, tourists can't help but become "serious and solemn".
The two tourists followed the crowd far away. They observed more carefully than other tourists, but whenever they saw a decoration that looked like a work of art, they would always check it out.
There are no restrictions on the use of optical brains or taking pictures, but you can't use flashlights, and you can't secretly take pictures of ordinary congregants inside.
The archbishop himself can take pictures at will. This is what the archbishop himself said.
That's what he said, and he did the same thing. At present, his portraits are the most widely circulated. The archbishop is very funny, and he will talk for a while when he meets tourists.
However, these tourists have not had such luck recently, and everyone understands him. After all, everyone has heard about the serious illness of the archbishop a while ago. In fact, the tourists who came to visit a while ago, whether they are believers , when they came here, they would all stand under the archbishop's window and pray for him.
Although I didn't expect that it would be the congregants of the Xihengguang Sect who posted an advertisement asking to sing, but everyone was very happy to hear that someone's singing brought the archbishop back from the embrace of death.
Different from the Donghengguang Sect, which is actively involved in the world, the West Hengguang Sect is a religious organization through and through. Their existence is more like a spiritual sanctuary for ordinary people in the tower.
"This cabinet is so exquisite and beautiful! But it seems to be very new. What is it?" One of the female tourists excitedly said to the companion behind him after discovering the white box in front of him.
"Uh..." Her companion looked it up with research spirit, and then trembled: "Uh, this is the coffin of Herini VII—that is, the current archbishop"
"This was donated by believers. All the archbishops in red painted a stripe on it. A while ago, the archbishop was really not well. Everyone lay in it. When he was about to die and close the coffin, he heard Geer , suddenly came back to life, the archbishop thought it was very miraculous, so he took the coffin he had been lying in outside as an ornament for everyone to visit, and said that he would continue to use this coffin in the future”
The two female tourists put their palms together and prayed for the archbishop.
Although the gestures of the two people are a bit wrong, they really pray for the old man.
Then they saw many people in white robes coming behind them, kneeling down in front of the coffin, reaching out their hands reverently to touch the delicate patterns on the coffin, and then left.
There is more than one person in white robes who does this. There are many full-time teaching staff who can only be seen in special places. If you look closely, you will find that there are more people wearing white robes than tourists. There are many more!
The two female tourists looked at each other, and the pedantic female tourist hurriedly searched, only to find out that today is the day when Xihengguang Sect holds a high mass, and all the believers in the pagoda will rush from all directions as long as they are qualified to come. Come on, in this way, it is no wonder that there are more teaching staff in the Holy See than tourists.
With this understanding, when they continued to visit, they found that many things were obviously wrong: many people in white robes were cleaning the room, walls and floors, and various exhibits; In addition, there are more exquisite decorations brought out by them. No wonder they feel that there are so many exhibits outside today, and they are all taken out temporarily for special days!
In addition, when they reached the central area of the Holy See, the originally empty church was filled with wooden chairs, huge candlesticks were taken out and placed in every corner of the church /
"The Pahamas Holy Prayer Hall is one of the most important places in the Pahamas Temple. Only the bishop can use it. The last time it was opened was 85 years ago. The archbishop prayed for those who committed suicide in the tower "The pedantic female tourist turned on her optical brain and taught herself while popularizing science with her companions.
"The most gorgeous high platform in the center is the prayer platform, and the equally gorgeous high-backed chairs behind it are the seats for the red robes. There are 33 red robes in Xiheng Guangjiao, and they will all attend tonight!" According to popular science As mentioned above, the pedantic female tourist was talking, and the two of them imagined the grand occasion here tonight, and finally both of them stayed where they were.
This is a place so beautiful that it can only be described as sacred, especially because it is a closed building with a roof made of stained glass. When the sun shines down from above, it has a holy light effect .
"Ah, I really want to hide here and see what will happen here at night!!!! Is it too late to become a Christian now?" another female tourist whispered.
"Come on, you, even if you join the church ten years earlier, it's useless. Those who can come to attend the high mass today are all important and high-level officials in the church. Even believers must have been devout and religious for at least 50 years. "Her companion beat her mercilessly.
The female tourist slumped her shoulders on the spot.
"However, there will be a live broadcast tonight. If you can hold back from falling asleep, then get up and watch it." The companion provided her with another method.
"Look and see! Remind me to buy Yake today, I will definitely not be able to sleep at night!"
In this way, the two female tourists left full of ambition.
Like most tourists, they visited Pahamastin until 17:17 in the afternoon, and did not leave by empty vehicle until the end of the sightseeing time.
Just as they were leaving, more people than tourists arrived, wearing white robes of various styles.
There are even four "red robes" among them. For ordinary people, these red robes are big figures who are not easy to see at ordinary times!
When ordinary people left, more and more people from the Holy See came.
And among them, some tourists also noticed that there were four people who did not look like teaching staff among the arriving crowd, but their figures just passed by in a flash. After a while, many people in white robes passed by. The robes covered their figures, and everyone couldn't see anything.
Ignoring this small episode that only a few people saw, everyone knows that there must be an extremely grand gathering here tonight.
Everyone made the same decision as the female tourist by coincidence: buy Yak and go back, stay up until the early morning to watch the live broadcast!
Many people were looking forward to it, the local time, at 23:23 in the evening, the live broadcast started on time——
As the most solemn ceremony in Hengguang Cult, this high mass will last for a full 7 hours, from midnight to dawn, which is definitely a test for the physical strength and energy of the officiant. Since then, Bishop Hellini has not presided over a ceremony of the same level for a full eighty-five years.
This is bound to be a grand event.
All those who were scheduled to attend the high mass arrived one after another.
The Pahamas Church, which was empty in the afternoon and only had seats, is now full.
White robes are on the bottom. Among these people, there are not only religious personnel, but also ordinary believers from all over the tower, while the red robes are above.
Look carefully, there are not only thirty-three of these red robes. In addition to the thirty-three red robes from the West Hengguang Sect, there are also five red robes from the East Hengguang Sect. Minor differences, other than that, their clothing styles are exactly the same.
A total of 70,031 people attended this high mass. As the high mass with the largest number of participants in history, these people sitting here tightly gave people an endless sense of solemnity.
Obviously there are so many people, but the venue is quiet, no one speaks casually.
Then, the entire sanctuary suddenly fell into darkness.
"Huh? Something went wrong with the live broadcast machine?" Many viewers who were sitting in front of the TV watching the live broadcast were discussing, just when everyone was about to make a complaint call, a voice suddenly came from the screen.
That was the voice announcing the start of the ceremony.
Then, holding a candlestick in his hand, the archbishop in gorgeous robes appeared in front of everyone from the left.
He walked forward with the candlestick in his hand. He walked slowly and steadily, without anyone helping him. He walked up to the prayer table with the candlestick in his hand.
"When we are enjoying the light, don't forget that there are more people living in darkness." This is the first sentence Bishop Herini said.
Then he picked up the candle from the candlestick. The red-robed bishop sitting on the far right was the first to walk down and took a candle from the side. The kindling, with him as the leader, and the other red robes following behind him, one by one, used Bishop Herini's candle to ignite the candles in their hands.
Then, the kindling of the candles in their hands ignited the candles of other congregants again, and the originally dark space became brighter little by little.
During the candlelight passing, Bishop Herini began to recite a long prayer.
His voice is not loud, but it is very steady. It is unknown who wrote the prayer, and when it is recited, it is like poetry.
Bishop Herini's voice was unhurried, neither high nor low. The circular architectural design allowed his voice to be effectively thickened, as if speaking in everyone's ears.
Holding a small candle in his hand, Ronggui's eyes slid across the faces of his master, his wife, and Xiaomei, and finally stopped on Xiaomei's face.
Master and his mother's expressions are similar to his, but Xiaomei looks more like those believers outside.
His lips moved slightly, as if he was reciting something in a low voice, his mouth shape matched the prayer outside, and he actually followed the recitation of Bishop Herini.
Such Xiaomei seems to have a sacred and distant feeling.
However, soon he had no time to continue to observe Xiaomei, and a white robe quietly walked in front of him.
"Please come with me, the time for mass is about to begin!" The man said hurriedly in a low voice.
They hurriedly followed each other. It was on the right side of the prayer platform. Behind the red-robed bishops, all the harmonizers had already taken their positions, leaving the frontmost platform empty.
This is the position that Ronggui will take up in a while.
"Don't be nervous, just sing as usual." Xiaomei said, and arranged Ronggui's clothes again. Then, seeing that Ronggui was still a little nervous, Xiaomei suddenly leaned over and gave Ronggui gave a tight hug.
Ronggui hadn't recovered from Xiaomei's hug, and soon, the master gave him a hug, and then the teacher's wife.
All the tension in Ronggui's heart was squeezed out by these three hugs.
Smiling at the three of them, he followed behind the white-robed man, and then stood on his own platform.
As soon as he stepped on the stage, Ronggui felt himself rise up!
With the choir behind them, all of them rose together!
Above all the seats, they waited condescendingly behind the curtain.
The voice of Bishop Herini is still coming from below——
"Don't be nervous when you are in the dark, there is fire in the hands of others."
"Although the fire in your hands is precious, don't be stingy and share it with more people."
"The light in one person's hands is limited, and only when everyone has light in their hands can the world be called bright."
Then, the moment he uttered the word "light", all the candlesticks in the sanctuary were lit up, and with the light of the candles in everyone's hands, the whole sanctuary was as bright as day!
Then, the curtain in front of Ronggui and the others was pulled up at the same moment, and the moment the solemn organ sounded, Ronggui knew that his time had come.
He squinted his eyes and looked forward, countless people looked at him, looking at him intently, his heart was pounding, the original nervousness suddenly turned into a kind of excitement at this moment.
Finally swallowing a mouthful of saliva, Ronggui raised his chin and began to sing——
The singing that pulled Bishop Herini back from the arms of death was completely reproduced in front of the 70,000 people present.
No, more than 70,000 people, including the people watching the live broadcast at the same time, this song appeared in front of more than 200 million people at the same time! ear!
My God! How can there be such a beautiful voice?
It was more ethereal than the accompanying organ sound, and once the sound came out, everyone's attention was immediately focused on that sound.
The low-pitched area seems to sink into the bottom of the sea, and the high-pitched area takes people into heaven. When the sound gets higher and higher, and it is so high that people can hardly hear it, almost everyone who hears the singing voice has varying degrees. Dizziness! Afterwards, many people insisted that they saw the white light and the entrance to heaven at that moment! Some even fell into a coma directly!
Almost everyone felt the "power of the gods" in the singing, fiery tears flowed out of their eye sockets uncontrollably, their lips trembled, and they clasped their hands tremblingly, looking devoutly. Facing the sky, his eyes closely followed the high singer.
They looked at the singer above excitedly, as if they saw the **** himself, their ears were filled with the singing voice of the singer, and they heard the voice of the singer getting higher and higher. In a thin line, the moment it disappeared, people heard the sound of glass shattering.
The moment the singer sang the last lyrics, all the exquisite stained glass on the roof shattered, together with the black-out glass cover.
At that moment, the outside light leaked through the broken glass and from the roof, and the real light appeared in front of people.
"Oh my God! Brightness!" I don't know who was the first to shout out, more and more people stood up excitedly, and suddenly thought of something, everyone applauded.
Towards the singers on the high stage, everyone applauded vigorously!
The author has something to say: Ah Gui finally made it to the concert stage.
And, ahem, I played a guest role this time: the one who doesn't know anything about female tourist A
In fact, I don't have any religious beliefs at all, but when I went to the Vatican for the first time, I still felt the shock.
My performance at the time was the same as in the article, and my pedantic little partner at the time was also doing research while doing research without understanding why.
Thank you!
The time I went to the Vatican happened to be 12.24, and there was a midnight mass at night. When we went, the chairs were already arranged, er, the chairs were very simple, but it was still very shocking when I watched the live broadcast at night!
Midnight Mass the pope wears a big ring!
As a non-Christian, I can probably feel the power of faith.
Also about the mass, I heard a particularly contagious mass in the Milan Cathedral, sung by a male voice, and it has not yet reached the period of voice change
It's very, very contagious, I just stood there in a daze, and left after a long time
Singing is really powerful, really.