Notre-Dame cathedral Paris is on fire

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Such sadness. So distressing. Even my fallen-away Catholic mother-in-law is in shock.

I have spent a great deal of time praying in this cathedral. Numerous Masses, Vespers, confessions, Adoration. I was there just 2½ weeks ago and confessed as well as requested a Mass be offered for a priest I knew, a friend, who died suddenly a few months ago. Many, many memories for me.

I’m confident the restoration will keep its aesthetic integrity intact, if for no other reason because people come from all over the world to see Notre-Dame as it is. Any modernization will be confined to what current legislation governing the structure requires, particularly with regard to safety standards.
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many of the people bemoaning this on my F-list are non-Christians or even strident atheists who only care about this because it’s some iconic piece of old architecture. If they ever said an actual prayer when they visited or saw the place, I’d be surprised.

Let us just hope when they rebuild it, and they WILL rebuild it, they don’t “modernize” it.
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Dear friend 🙂

Respect for Notre-Dame, even if confined to its perceived architectural significance, is better than no respect at all. In fact, it is this perceived architectural significance that will contribute to assuring the appearance of the cathedral will not be modernized because people want to admire it as it is.

The cathedral in my own Archdiocese has a modern façade because the money to complete it as intended ran out. It’s going to cost a fortune to rebuild Notre-Dame, and I’m sure the support of everyone who loves the cathedral, believer or not, will be welcome and indeed necessary. The building itself belongs to the French government. Public support is needed to justify rebuilding it. So I rejoice that non-Christians and non-religious people are saddened by this damage! It gives the government the impetus to proceed with restoration, because that’s what everyone wants.
 
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Fine, I will hope that these friends of mine and all the newscasters too will pitch in large donations. The news media very well might donate. I am pretty sure that none of my friends posting fire updates will send a nickel though. Sad but true.
 
I am very upset. What a temptation during Lent. So sad. Very sad. Very very sad.
 
Don’t know about the others, but I would be sad if Angkor Wat burned down too. I would be sad if any fine, ancient monument of human civilization, especially ones of religious significance to their followers, suffers such a fate.
 
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I am not talking about money so much as political will. Part of the reason Notre-Dame continues to exist is due to its architectural value. The French economy gets a huge revenue boost from the hoardes of tourists who come to Paris to look at it. If no one was interested in that, the government would have no interest in maintaining it. Paris would still have a cathedral, but it probably wouldn’t be this one.
 
The only thing I have faith in is my Father, who said, “None shall know the time nor the hour”.

I’m afraid I find your questions distasteful. It is not up to you to gauge my faith. I’m taking a leaf out of @Tis_Bearself’s book and muting this thread before I get a major headache out of it.

I’d also like to add that thousands are dying in Yemen as we speak, and have been for years. Where were your dire warnings before Notre Dame burned?
 
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Is it wrong to just make a question about an event relating it to eschatology? YHWH_Christ wasn’t even making an heresy in the first post, just making a question. The fire seems strange to me also.
 
This makes my skin crawl. Right during Holy Week too.

I suspect demonic influence. Who would attack Mother Church like this and hurt a bit of her body, while her Holy Spouse is prepping to harrow the halls of Hell in a few days?
 
Disclaimer: If one makes a question about End Times it doesn’t mean he/she claims to know when End Times is.
 
It is likely the fire is due to a construction mishap. The cathedral has been undergoing renovations.

A historic building near us burned spectaculary down to the ground several years ago. The building was undergoing renovations and all it took, on that dry, windy, sunny day was one spark to set the whole building ablaze very quickly.

The irony of this taking place during Holy Week and the introspection this disaster fosters does not require a terrorist plot.
 
I’m afraid when one says, “Do you not see the signs of the times?” one implies that one believes the End Times are near.
 
Oh my…what an absolute tragedy…so much art, the organ the bells and so much history lost…

Imagine, to survive all the past even the bombings in WWII only to be lost during renovations.

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Thanks for posting yesterday’s Palm Sunday mass, Rob. I watched it in tears. I loved that church!
 
I was refering to the question:
YHWH_Christ said:
… a warning… a judgment maybe?
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In which he was just suggesting an interpretation. He didn’t make affirmative hypothesis until later posts, at which point everyone was censoring him for “claiming to know” about eschatology.
 
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