by Haruo » Mon Apr 15, 2019 8:53 pm
I don't know how many laity call Notre-Dame de Paris their home parish, but you've got to admit a little storm activity is nothing to the Holy Week disaster they're enduring. I remember my family's visit there in June, 1968, with the square in front full (I think I recall) of police vehicles—it was only a couple weeks after the height of the student riots of that year, which took place while we were in the USSR—and how we went into the building, what I would now call the narthex, not sure if I knew the term at the time nor if it's technically correct, and could hear Gregorian chant at the far, nave end of the sanctuary, the end where apparently today's inferno was centered, and my dad raising his voice in parody: "My_____ mother-can-beat-your-mother-at DOM-inoe_____s!"
Haruo = Leland Bryant Ross
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