Posted on 12/10/2024 7:31:05 AM PST by CondoleezzaProtege
Gorgeous...May it bless your day.
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I prefer this version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_DqmyI_YNE
I had no idea. Still, there were no worshippers, so the concern remains.
Please, put a warning label. Oh my God, Oh my God, Oh, my God. The tears were just flowing down my face. (I just put my make-up on). That was amazing. I was not a fan of the lady’s rendition, but the heavy metal singer knocked it out of the park.
- There were sacred French hymns played aplenty, of course! But just as America and US President-elect Trump had a seat of honor in the front row, the British origin- now mostly American hymn “Amazing Grace” had a place of honor as well. (American soldiers did liberate Paris during WWII after all.)
- Granted “Amazing Grace” is such a mainstream, universally recognized and appreciated song now, which transcends denominations and even faiths. Notre Dame is visited in the millions by people the world over.
- It’s fitting an African singer sings it given the prominent role African Catholics and Protestant expats have played in keeping the oldest churches of Western Europe filled and afloat, even during historic periods of heightened secularism — which saw a steep decline in church attendance among native Europeans and thereby the shutting down to outright demolishment of many old churches. (I say this as an observer who lived abroad.)
Truly echoing Heaven. 🕊️🎶
Immediately following this video, YouTube fed a link to another performance at the same event, Mozart's glorious Laudate Dominum. So, no need to worry. There were probably many additional aspects to the program.
Gad, I haven’t heard those architectural terms since grade school in the ‘60s.
You apparently didn't understand them, then or now, or you wouldn't have insisted a couple of times on this thread that there were no spectators. :-)
The whole length of U.S. history would fit many times into the length of European Christendom's history. Notre Dame is nearly a thousand years old. Europeans would naturally still be more familiar with church floor plan terms that we cowboys of the New World.
Notre Dame is vast, but the acoustics are exquisite, as they also are in most of the grand European cathedrals like St Paul's and Westminster. So the congregants are seated some distance away and just weren't visible on those camera angles.
Actually, I understood them at the time as a matter of learning about the floor plan as a drawn image, not from being inside the building. When was in Catholic school (the chapel of which had pews, as does Grace Cathedral in San Francisco where I grew up), I was excluded from many events from which I might have leared those terms in situ, as I've never been in a European Cathedral except as a tourist.
Now that may seem strange to you, but you see after school, I'd go to the Jewish Community Center. On Sunday, it was an Episcopalian Church.
As a child, I had the peculiar advantage of learning about how subtle bigotry can be from multiple directions. Hence is the conclusion that your perceptions were blinded by an inherent condescension founded in a horridly institutionally -egocentric interpretation of the Greek New Testament (rocks in your heads so to speak), but I doubt seriously you'll follow Messiah's teaching from a penitent heart in reply.
That was a long way of expressing your totally unneccessary hurt feelings, for which I apologize anyway. I guess my little :-) after my gibe didn’t do the trick of letting you know I was joshing with ya.
Great that you did get to tour some European cathedrals. The acoustics are so stunning—no church could afford to build such buildings today.
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