I don't know by what miracle I managed to have this footage but this is it, I climbed Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral!! → Instagram: @alrx.c Thanks to Tdy and A for the support. ♥ Music: Where the Good Way Lies - Hope Unfolds

The last choir music in Notre-Dame Cathedral, before the fire.
Stunning Stabat Mater!
Opublikowany 15 kwi 2019
1. Stabat Mater dolorosa iuxta crucem lacrimosa dum pendebat Filius The grieving Mother stood weeping beside the cross where her Son was hanging
2. Cuius animam gementem contristatam et dolentem pertransivit gladius Through her weeping soul, compassionate and grieving, a sword passed.
3. O quam tristis et afflicta fuit illa benedicta Mater Unigeniti O how sad and afflicted was that blessed Mother of the Only-begotten!
4. Quae moerebat et dolebat et tremebat cum videbat nati poenas incliti Who mourned and grieved and trembled looking at the torment of her glorious Child
5. Quis est homo qui non fleret Matri Christi si videret in tanto supplicio? Who is the person who would not weep seeing the Mother of Christ in such agony? 6. Quis non posset contristari Matrem Christi contemplari dolentum cum filio? Who would not be able to feel compassion on beholding Christ’s Mother … More

THE APOSTLES' CREED.
Art. 2: And in Jesus Christ, His only Son, Our Lord.
The Promise of a Redeemer.
1. God created Adam and Eve, like the angels, in a state of innocence and righteousness, in which they were subject neither to suffer nor die.
2. The devil, in the guise of a serpent, lured them into disobeying God by eating of the forbidden fruit.
3. As a punishment for their disobedience they were driven out of the earthly paradise and condemned to eat their bread « in the sweat of their face » (Gen. III, 19). Henceforth they were to be subject to ignorance, concupiscence, pain and death and to be excluded from the joys of heaven.
4. The guilt of Adam's sin has passed on to all his descendants, so that they are born into the world with it and are subject to the same miseries as he was.
5. This sin, of which all men bear the guilt, is called original sin, that is to say, the sin they derive from their origin. See also p. 58. 6. The Most Blessed Virgin, as a special privilege, becau… More

"Is there one who would not weep, whelmed in miseries so deep, Christ’s dear Mother to behold? Can the human heart refrain from partaking in her pain, in that Mother’s pain untold? For the sins of His own nation, She saw Jesus wracked with torment, All with scourges rent: She beheld her tender Child, Saw Him hang in desolation, Till His spirit forth He sent. O thou Mother! fount of love! Touch my spirit from above, make my heart with thine accord: Make me feel as thou hast felt; make my soul to glow and melt with the love of Christ my Lord." Sculpture of Our Lady holding the crucified and dead Christ, from the Carmelite Monastery of Our Lady of Solitude in Tonopah, AZ.
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"And yet ours were the sufferings he bore, ours the sorrows he carried. But we, we thought of him as someone punished, struck by God, and brought low. Yet he was pierced through for our faults, crushed for our sins. On him lies a punishment that brings us peace, and through his wounds we are healed." – Isaiah 53:4-5. Stained glass by A. W. N. Pugin in Bolton Abbey.
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It took a century to build Notre Dame. A confident, proud people built it—with hand tools. Wealthy Frenchmen have pledged a billion Euros for restoration, but would they pay a dime to preserve the people who built the cathedral? Only when Europeans are sure of who they are—and who they will be 200 years from now—will they be able to build, not just rebuild.
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