May 13 There are those who go to Fatima on their knees; there are those who watch the Eurovision Song Contest; it’s hard to say which is more painful. In Cova da Iria there have been apparitions in a scenario of extreme poverty and simplicity; in the Liverpool Arena, there are punctual intervals of simplicity in a great luminescent apparition. mysteries? None. Zelensky was forbidden to speak because he goes against the “rules” of the Festival, there was no doubt about the futility of all this.
Precisely six years ago, Salvador Sobral won the festival in Portugal, the same day that the Pope visited Fátima and Benfica was champion. Today, the Pope did not come, Benfica even played and even won, but they still need three more points to make a pilgrimage to the Marquis, and Portugal’s victory at the party seems as likely as an apparition of the Virgin.
Ukraine won last year, but with the country at war, the organization went to the runner-up, the United Kingdom, the same one that decided that, this year, the order of the performances would not be determined by the draw, but by them. Portugal is second out of 26, one of those places where you never win anything because, halfway through, nobody remembers what we went to do there. Anyway, for good luck, Mimicat asked everyone to wear a red piece of clothing, and I chose a scarf that said “Give me 38.” That’s how pretty it is, I say. Synergies, people would say trends.
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Source: Observadora
