The Ave Maria of Notre Dame

Date: 
Tuesday, April 30, 2019 - 23:30
Article link: 

 

    • Avatar

      Okay ... so

      1. Apparently no one was supposed to be there when the fire started.

      2. A video on Twitter shows a suspicious person in Arab garb on the Cathedral's balcony while the fire appears to be in progress.

      3. No Security guards and no fire watch.

      4. No fire suppression equipment on hand.

      5. Fire response took how long? I've heard everything from 15 minutes to three hours. Either way it was a joke.

      6. Churches have been vandalized, and people have been attacked in the city in record numbers in the last year.

      7. And no one took any steps to protect the place from arson, vandalism, terrorism, or a serious accident?

      So tell me again ... Why should we excuse this as an accident?

      If this was a factory, we would all be demanding that heads roll. But since this is a great cathedral that belongs to us all

      - oh, we're supposed to dismiss it?!

      Even if it was not deliberate terrorism or arson - the negligence would be criminal.

      Who hired the Three Stooges to renovate the place?

      Is France a first world Western nation or a banana republic backwater?

      What do they have no one professional in charge?

      Unbelievable ... I'm living in a dystopian science fiction movie with my eyes wide open ...

    • Avatar

      And lots of people in Media or in comments sections trying to silence and/or dissuade people from asking these kinds of questions. It's maddening!

  • Avatar

    Yes, too many "coincidences" - more like purposeful strategy.
    Was Notre Dame Cathedral Burning a False Flag??

    • Avatar

      Who knows? I would not rule it out. What gets me is that this case looks like arson. Arson is more likely than the idea that well-vetted professionals would 'accidentally' burn it to the ground. We can understand 'caution' as you don't want to prejudice a criminal trial, but ... to just not rule out arson from the get-go, and ignore the evidence ... very suspicious.

      My bet is ... the French government knows it's probably a terrorist - and they also know they've been watching the guy or the cell - and they don't want to admit it b/c the backlash might make heads roll. So instead of pulling CCTV, phone records, and contacting their spooks, they're busy burning the evidence - which makes them accomplices after the fact.

      Have a great Easter/Resurrection Sunday/Passover weekend!

... 

  • Avatar

    I think back to the 9/11 attacks in America, and our nation was united for about 10 minutes before descending further and further into the labyrinthine hell of the last 18 years.

    Am I wrong to think that singing Ave Maria upon the burning of the most prominent symbol of formerly Catholic France is velleity in the great scheme of things?

    Blind, wishful thinking and sentiment will not save France, or Europe, from the onslaught of barbarians in their midst.

    If we pray, we pray for conversion of the many atheists in France -- those in name as well as those in practice; and for the conversion of all of Islam. Otherwise, the burning of Notre Dame is but a prelude of the burning of all of Europe in the conflagration -- the hellish conflagration.

    If any in France might be reading my post, I beg of you: repent! Return to Christ Our Lord, and His Mother who is also our mother -- Notre Dame!!

...

  • Avatar

    Would that Parisian Catholics had filled Notre Dame every Sunday. You only understand something once you lose it.

    • Avatar

      "Would that Parisian Catholics had filled Notre Dame every Sunday. You only understand something once you lose it."

  • Avatar

    Joni Mitchell, anyone? (Big Yellow Taxi). Not to take this beautiful post into the secular, but I'm really conflicted about the pledges of Macron and UNESCO to rebuild ... what? I mean, what is Notre Dame to them but a museum piece? What will remain of the Holy, the Beautiful? Back to Joni: "pave paradise and put up a parking lot."

    • Avatar

      The secular can unwittingly serve the sacred. Why can we not say "This is not just a rebuilding, it is a symbol of resurrection?"

      I have to admit that the scenes of the praying Parisians told me that I have not prayed enough for the conversion of Macron and other European atheists. Perhaps if we pray for their conversion the feeling of confliction will diminish.

...

Avatar

"And it has ever been, that the depths of love cannot be known until the hour of separation".

The Cathedral of Notre Dame will be rebuilt but it will never again be done by the hands of those who would do so to honor and revere the Immaculate Mother of God. The gold Cross, which was not burned, stands as a symbol in the minds of some that God will bless this horrific event with "victory"......a gold cross without the Body of Christ is not a sign of hope and no victory can come from it.

 

 

 

 

Own comment: 

Images of Catholics kneeling to sing Marian hymns as Notre-Dame de Paris burned were indeed powerful.

Maybe there is hope for France, after all, I am now tempted to think. I am not sure about anyone else. At least in France you will find plenty of traditionalists, and whole communities of them, in fact. It can, sadly, not be said of any place else of which I am aware.