THIS HOLY WEEK AND THE BURNING OF “NOTRE DAME” CATHEDRAL

  

While I shared my sorry heart with millions human beings in this World, and I felt my spirit broken when the tremendous sad news that the Cathedral of Notre Dame was burning came to be known, it is more than interesting, really shocking and impossible to understand the attitude assumed by some individuals and groups.

 

Generally living in the cohesion that provides a small group that feeds back to itself, or being a solitary expression, some people celebrated the fire.

And is this reality that makes me ask myself what kind of humanity is this?; divided, fractured, antagonistic, but above all irrational, brutal, violent, unable to be ecstatic with art, disrespectful to the point of making jokes of the tragedy in very bad taste.

Sometimes I wonder how it is possible that some people could be so alienated. Could it be a virus responsible for that? Could it be the increased use of illegal drugs? Could it be that they are drinking contaminated water?

I really don't know, but they act and think in such an abnormal way that becomes a shocking and regrettable reality.

And anybody maybe wondering is it just a mere coincidence that the burning of the Cathedral happened in this Holy Week.?

Personally, I don't stay on the surface. I like to go deeper, and for me, it is not a rejection to the Catholic Church, but at the end and essentially it is a rejection of Jesus.

Jesus deeply disturbs the conscience of all those who know themselves to be evildoers, who know that their thoughts are twisted and that they live in a grave lack of morals. That is why society rejects them, but when they are rejected, they end up hating society as a whole, and Jesus who questions them.

Notre Dame Cathedral is a monumental place of art, of the culture of centuries, also a place for tourists to enjoy the many stained glasses, sculptures, paintings, and the wonderful music coming from its organ.

This cathedral that was built by masons reveals in the black and white of its floor and the symbols engraved in its columns, that origin.

This cathedral belongs to Paris, to France and to the whole World. Like the Taj Mahal in India, the Pyramids in Mexico, the Great Wall in China, the  Winter Palace in St. Petersburg, Russia, and so many other monuments and constructions due to the ingenuity, the creativity and the sense of beauty of their builders.

They belong to the whole of humanity. They represent the best of what we can do.

Therefore, all those minor expressions –although noisy— and abusing of the social media, won’t change the will and the feelings of the vast majority of the people that populates the planet. 

Once and for all, sanity and common sense must prevail. It is for the common good and the preservation of humanity, of essential values and good feelings.

 

Milton W. Hourcade