How will Notre-Dame de Paris, an architectural jewel of stone and glass, regain its cathedral soul? Five years after the fire, on April 15, 2019, and nine months before its reopening to the public, on December 8, what rituals of passage will lead from the gargantuan construction site to the silence of the sacred tabernacle? How will the Republican State hand over the keys of this house of God to the Church and to the French, believers or not?
The Church, whose inner clock is calibrated over centuries, has already planned everything. On February 2, the Archbishop of Paris, Mgr Laurent Ulrich, published a
“pastoral letter”
announcing the program: six months of celebration, until Pentecost 2025, with countless pilgrimages which will be introduced by three days of intense prayers, very ritualized: the three days of a “resurrection” of Notre-Dame de Paris.
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But what will be the deeper meaning of the symbolic gestures that will be taken? On December 7, a singular scene on the square will announce the “return”…
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