{"id":35411,"date":"2019-04-15T17:49:27","date_gmt":"2019-04-15T21:49:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/?p=35411"},"modified":"2019-04-15T19:14:25","modified_gmt":"2019-04-15T23:14:25","slug":"our-lady-of-paris-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2019\/04\/our-lady-of-paris-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Lady of Paris 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a>On Christmas Day in 1886 Paul Claudel attended High Mass at the cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris. He was not particularly moved by the ceremony, which probably was presided over by the newly appointed archbishop. Claudel left and then returned for vespers. \u201cIt was the gloomiest winter day and the darkest rainy afternoon over Paris,\u201d he wrote. He listened to the psalms and the Magnificat.<\/p>\n

For the rest of his life he recalled that he \u201cstood near the second pillar at the entrance to the chancel, to the right, on the side of the sacristy.\u201d There one finds a fourteenth-century statue of the Virgin and Child. \u201cThen occurred the event which dominates my entire life,\u201d he wrote.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cIn an instant, my heart was touched and I believed. I believed with such a strength of adherence, with such an uplifting of my entire being, with such powerful conviction, with such a certainty leaving no room for any kind of doubt, that since then all the books, all the arguments, all the incidents and accidents of a busy life have been unable to shake my faith, nor indeed to affect it in any way.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

UPDATE:<\/p>\n

THE VAULT HELD!!! the fire stayed ABOVE it!! Only a small part of the vault collapsed. The interior seems to be relatively untouched.<\/p>\n

Apparently the great rose window is intact, though the two smaller ones (the north and south windows) are probably gone.<\/p>\n

French reporter who was allowed into Notre Dame de Paris with President Macron on a brief 5-7 minute tour is saying the inside is largely preserved, with the Altar and the walls intact, even the rows of chairs still in place. There is a massive hole in the roof obviously. The Crown of Thorns and the Cloak of Saint Louis had been removed previously safe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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