The Servant of God, Albino Luciani, John Paul I, had once of the shortest papacies on record --33 days -- but, as his successor and namesake, John Paul II, once said, "the greatness of his pontificate is inversely proportional to its length." He was the first pope to give up the tiara, the sedia gestatoria, the papal we, the first to call God "Mother," and one of the greatest spiritual teachers of all time. This modest tribute doesn't begin to tell you half of it, but I hope to do more . . . Santo subito!

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(The music is "Nun seid ihr wohl gerochen" from Bach's Christmas Oratorio. Very fitting for such a joyous man!)

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