It is a peculiar thing, the way some stories are told and retold down through the ages, the way history coils around itself and unspools again as the Earth hurtles through the firmament. And every …
It is a peculiar thing, the way some stories are told and retold down through the ages, the way history coils around itself and unspools again as the Earth hurtles through the firmament. And every now and then, humanity quietly redeems itself in some small way, as it did this week, when a horrific cloud of smoke blackened the skies above the 4th arrondissement of Paris.
Composed roughly 1,000 years later, the story of Mary of Galilee, as first told by the Christian evangelists Luke and John, is more than merely striking in its similarity to the story of Hannah. Oddly enough, Mary’s story is more fully and lyrically told centuries later in the Koran – Mary is the only woman Islam’s most holy book mentions by name.
And then on Monday evening, almost 1,000 years after Louis the Younger imagined a towering masterpiece of Gothic architecture arising from the Île de la Cité in Paris, that magnificent symphony of medieval engineering, blood and sweat, aesthetic genius and religious devotion, was engulfed in a raging tower of flames.
Macron extended his condolences to Roman Catholics around the world. After all, the disaster was perhaps especially painful to devout Roman Catholics observing Holy Week, the most sacred week of the liturgical calendar. It’s even more important than Christmas. Holy Week began on Palm Sunday, which commemorates Jesus’s triumphant arrival in Jerusalem, and concludes on the evening of Maundy Thursday, which ushers in Easter – the crucifixion and resurrection that is central to Christ’s story.
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