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Monthly Archives: April 2019
Fundraising idea for #NotreDame
I’ve been chatting with a friend. Here’s an idea. Those who are responsible for Notre Dame Cathedral might sell cubes of charred wood and vault from the burned roof. Say, 1 cm (5 cm for a lot more). This would … Read More
VIDEO: Interview with Fr. Jean-Marc Fournier
Here is an interview with Fr. Jean-Marc Fournier, the priest military chaplain to the firefighters of Paris. He was a member of the FSSP. Generally accurate translation (by someone out there): ‘I am Father Fournier, chaplain-major at the Paris Fire … Read More
Posted in Just Too Cool, Mail from priests
Tagged Jean-Marc Fournier, Notre-Dame de Paris
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WDTPRS – Spy Wednesday, the last Collect of Lent
The term “Spy” Wednesday is probably an allusion to Christ’s betrayal by Judas. This prayer was the Collect for this same day in the 1962 Missale Romanum. It was also in the ancient Gregorian Sacramentary in both the Hadrianum and … Read More
VIDEO: Interior of #NotreDame after the fire. WHEW!
This video… I hope it works… show the interior. It could have been a LOT worse! One thing that occurs to me is, Holy Cow! could our forebears build! And, the sheer size of the place helped to isolate the … Read More
VIDEO – The last rite in #NotreDame was… this?
I am not sure what the schedule was for Palm Sunday at Notre-Dame de Paris, but here is their video of Vespers. Just after this, the fire started. There are views of many things now destroyed… some marvelous, some dreadful. … Read More
Posted in GO TO CONFESSION, The Coming Storm, The future and our choices
Tagged Notre-Dame de Paris
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About #NotreDame and the fire and the altar. Just sayin’…
The day after the night before at #NotreDame de Paris. The High Altar stands untouched with its gleaming Cross, and the Blessed Virgin weeping holding her dead Jesus in her arms. The modern Altar installed after Vatican II, lays under … Read More
Fr. Z rants about #NotreDame fire and the Faith in the Church’s “eldest daughter”
In 1 Peter 2:2-5 we read: As newborn babes, desire the rational milk without guile, that thereby you may grow unto salvation: If so be you have tasted that the Lord is sweet. Unto whom coming, as to a living stone, … Read More
Inside burning #NotreDame a human chain saved relics, Blessed Sacrament. Fr. Jean-Marc Fournier – OORAH!
UPDATE: I was told today, that Fr. Jean-Marc Fournier had been in the FSSP. ___ There is an interesting piece at Breitbart today about the rescue of relics and important objects from Notre-Dame Cathedral as the roof burned. They … Read More
Happy Birthday, Benedict XVI! Ad multos vivas faustissimos annos
Today Benedict XVI, born Joseph Ratzinger, turns 92. Thank you for the gift of Summorum Pontificum. Ad multos vivas faustissimos felicissimosque annos!
An early ALLELUIA for the vaulting of #NotreDame – It held!
The wooden roof over the stone vaulting of the nave of Notre-Dame of Paris burned and the great spire came down. But the vaulting held! Only a small part came down. Inside #NotreDame. Only a small part of the vault … Read More
Posted in The Coming Storm, The future and our choices
Tagged France, Notre-Dame de Paris
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