Thanks for the pics!

It was a pleasure to hear the organ also.
They had an American organist that night as luck would have it.

I would love to see the inside but I will have to settle for photos.

It was a pleasure to go and hear the organ also.

Just wow...

Considering how 💔💔💔 it was watching the images of the fire,
this is balm for the soul.

Thank you for sharing...

we were in another church in Italy that had had a similar fire. It was almost rebuilt. Lots of black and white marble from closed quarries. The alter was yet to be restored. It gave hope that this edifice would be rebuilt.

there are stone masons + other craftsmen still alive who can restore
these buildings... Those that see such toil as a calling... their devotion
is reflected in the finished work...

They definitely did it right.

It looks very different from the last time I was there, in the last century. Maybe someday....

BAck then it looked dingy and drab.

Who knows that he won't want one and maybe tear down the Lincoln Monument or something else to build it.....knowing that his fanatical, fringe, right wing, zealot, bible thumpers would love it.......

is that we don't have the workers to handle that kind of work.

It would be “too Catholic” and thereby demonic.

Wife is from Alabama. Just as I left Mississippi at 18 and never looked back, she put Alabama in her rearview mirror at 18.

Her sister-in-law in Alabama died four months after the Notre Dame fire. We went to Alabama for the funeral, spent a few days visiting her family and old friends. Two of her old friends are married to each other. She was a high school English teacher for 35 years, he was mayor of their town and later member of the Alabama House of Delegates -- intelligent, educate people. So we thought.

Our daughter was in France at the time and she visited the burned-out Notre Dame. We told wife's friends where our daughter was, that she had visited the burned-out Notre Dame and they did not know that there had been a fire AT NOTRE DAME UNIVERSITY IN INDIANA, USA. When we told then, well, no, not that Notre Dame, we are talking about the fire four months ago that almost destroyed the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, well, NO, THEY HAD NOT HEARD OF THAT.

Wife and I were calm, didn't flip out. But when we left, wife went through the roof -- "How could (her friend) get so stupid? Did not hear the news that the Notre Dame Cathedral had burned? WTF??? How %$# %^&^&&^%$%$ stupid can she be and that dumbass (husband's name) what the ###$#@#$% is his problem?? I don't know those people. "

We went to a local BBQ joint where she ate a whole rack of ribs before she calmed down.

And that, folks, is Alabama for you.

It's been superbly restored. Wish I could see it in person. These will have to do.

The best part about the concert was there wasn't fighting through the crowds that happen these days.

and went to an organ recital at Notre Dame, only to hear an American organist. So I went to masses all over the city to hear the Parisian organists. Now I really want to see Notre Dame again. I watched the opening service after it was brought back. The organ sounded beautiful.

My late wife and I shot a roll of film just of the gargoyles. Back then they didn't have the fencing up around the tower to keep people in.

One of our churches is having Orgel Mai. Tonight it will be an American and on Sunday we have a young woman. She was born in Germany, spent lots of time in Austria. Now lives in Paris and here parents are Korean.
I have been to 2 other concerts with women organists and the choices are quite different.

Those are wonderful pictures.