Peculiar moment at the new Abp's first pontifical yesterday. Customarily, almost everyone in the nave sits after the end of the Gospel, though the concelebrants in choir almost always remain standing (as is proper) until the celebrant at his chair venerates the book of the Gospels. Yesterday, for the first time in my memory (attending there since the last millennium), everyone stood until the new abp. headed to the pulpit.
So, one of two things (and with the proviso that the crowd is mostly tourists). Either everyone suddenly came to the realization that they had been doing it wrong, or something about the fact that the now-retired fellow wasn't there anymore. A hesitation to act in his absence, or perhaps the lack of his prompting. Peculiar.