Posted on 04/15/2019 7:44:50 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
PARIS — It took little more than an hour. In that amount of time, the spire had fallen, most of the roof had given way, and that was that. Notre Dame — the literal and figurative heart of Paris, the point from which all distances in the city are measured and the seemingly eternal backdrop to life in the French capital — was essentially no more.
Granted, the facade was preserved, and the bell towers remain intact. But this is without question a story of loss on an otherwise perfect spring day.
To have lived in Paris in recent years is to be well acquainted with loss and even unspeakable tragedy. The killing of 12 people in the attack at the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo after a morning meeting in January 2015. The bombings and shootings that claimed 130 people at the national stadium, the Bataclan concert hall and on random cafe terraces near the Canal Saint-Martin. The killings of two elderly Jewish women — one hurled from her apartment window. The omnipresence of armed guards at any site where crowds may gather.
But through all of these nightmares, there has been one constant, collective refrain. This was the comforting reality — or at least the comforting belief — that somehow, through it all, Paris was indestructible. The idea that Paris will always be Paris felt truer nowhere else than in front of Notre Dame.
In his remarks to a grieving nation close to midnight on Monday, President Emmanuel Macron called the cathedral a metaphor for France. “Notre Dame is our history, our literature, our imagination,” he said. “The place of all our great events, our epidemics, our wars, our liberations, the epicenter of our lives.”
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Evidence in the Hebrew: Seine [סן] reverses to nes [נס], "miracle":
נֵס ᴵ m.n. 1 standard, ensign, flag. 2 signal, sign. [Together with Aram. נִסָּא, Syr. נִיסָא (= signal, sign), of uncertain origin. According to several scholars borrowed from Akka. nīshu (= something lifted), from nashū (= to lift), corresponding Heb. נשׂא. cp. נֵס ᴵᴵ. cp. also נסס ᴵ.]
נֵס ᴵᴵ m.n. PBH miracle, providential event, wonder. [Prob. sense enlargement of נֵס ᴵ.] Derivatives: נִסִּי, נסס ᴵᴵ.
Today [Nisan 10] - another word play on nes/Seine [ניסן - Nisan] - was the traditional date for the passing of Miriam, Moses' sister.
Notre Dame ---> "Our Lady" i.e. Mary (also Miriam)
What's up is down and what's down is up.
It's like with the little lander on the Moon. It crashed, meaning it crashed out after a very long journey. Fast asleep on the Sea of Serenity (sea of calm)... dreaming.
Most of the leaders of Europe are traitors who want it to fall to Islam.
That would be an easy photo to get. I’m in northern Italy right now, and every large church has many muslim tourists in it.
That’s something I wondered about, and why I posted it here first.
It even has Twin Towers.
Unbelievable! What does that mean, they are going to add islamic touches during the rebuilding of Notre Dame? Sounds like blasphemy to me.
The Spirit that inspired the Cathedral can die in damn near every heart in France without a wimper but a building burns and everyone laments it’s passing..
What about all the irreplaceable relics and artifacts that were inside?
-PJ
Not a certifiable miracle from what I can see.
Notre Dame still has a Cathedral Chapter—which is sort of like a religious order attached to a particular Church—and lots of staff. If they were to have a fire, it likely couldn’t have happened at a better time for having all hands on deck and no people who were not part of the team in the way.
It would take bravery to go into a burning Church, but the thing is high enough and the stone ceiling provides enough protection that it isn’t rushing into your standard burning building.
It looks to me like they lost a really nice steeple, three of four world class pieces of stained glass (and some others as well) but the pulpit, which is made of wood and not that far from the part of the ceiling that did give way still stood. The free-standing altar looks ruined. Alas.
Another battle in the war....lost.
Another Light Out....
“What does that mean, they are going to add islamic touches during the rebuilding of Notre Dame?”
There are no “islamic touches”. Either it’s a mosque, which means all Christian iconography has to be destroyed or defaced, or it isn’t.
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