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ucrdem

(15,512 posts)
Sat Apr 20, 2019, 05:19 PM Apr 2019

Paris life resumes, without Notre Dame

By James McAuley | Washington Post | April 19 at 4:58 PM


PARIS — A procession of clergy dressed in white carried a simple black cross through the streets of Île St. Louis on Friday, continuing a Good Friday ritual even while the charred hulk of Notre Dame Cathedral loomed behind them.

Thousands of Parisians and visitors gathered for the “stations of the cross” devotion, a symbolic reenactment of Christ’s passion that commemorates the trajectory from his sentencing to his burial in 14 stops.

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"The only thing I’m sure of is that God always gets good from evil,” Aupetit said in a Friday interview with la Croix, a French Catholic newspaper.

“At the foot of the cross, when everything was over, someone was standing: it was Notre Dame,” he said, referring to the Virgin Mary, the namesake of the cathedral, who was present for her son’s crucifixion. “And on the third day, Christ is risen. From the death of his son, God brought for the good: his resurrection and the salvation of all men.”

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But nearby, the “bouquinistes,” the booksellers lining the banks of the Seine, were propped in their folding chairs, checking their mobile phones and waiting for customers. Because the weather was finally warm, young people were sunbathing on the riverbank. Some gazed up to the road in curiosity as Latin incantations boomed from the loudspeakers.

Four days after the fire that brought the city to a shocked standstill, Paris had resumed doing what it does on a spring afternoon.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/holy-week-continues-and-paris-life-resumes-without-notre-dame/2019/04/19/7d2eb95e-62a3-11e9-bf24-db4b9fb62aa2_story.html?utm_term=.712a1b63b931

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Paris life resumes, without Notre Dame (Original Post) ucrdem Apr 2019 OP
THANKS for posting this Raine Apr 2019 #1
Thanks Raine . . . ucrdem Apr 2019 #2

Raine

(30,540 posts)
1. THANKS for posting this
Sat Apr 20, 2019, 09:07 PM
Apr 2019

I appreciate the follow-up, too often these things drop totally off the media radar.

ucrdem

(15,512 posts)
2. Thanks Raine . . .
Sat Apr 20, 2019, 09:34 PM
Apr 2019

Agree completely. After the initial horror it becomes last week's news except for the people whose lives it touches, and there are a lot of them. Notre Dame has a beautiful children's choir for example that sings on the radio every week and now they are "orphans" without a permanent place to practice and perform:

https://www.lexpress.fr/actualites/1/societe/les-choeurs-de-notre-dame-ces-orphelins-de-la-cathedrale_2073845.html

And after years of meticulous restoration the cathedral itself is once again burned and blackened.







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