The Day After

Notre Dame still standing.

That's all.  It's better not to speak - there is no need. 

So many are saying such silly things.  A few offering some decent pious sentiments, while others make claims evocative of conspiracy theories as to who maybe caused it.  Then of course the usual traditionalist doom and gloom stuff, pretty much echoes the ISIS claims it's God's punsihment, and so on.  Even the news that the cathedral will be rebuilt is peppered with fears and contempt of Macron's Government and dread they could modernize the structure in some hideous way, thus adding insult to injury.

Be still.

Today, the world should stop and every knee should bend ...

Because, " "We have been faced with such a serious, indeed,

 unimaginable desecration of the Holy Eucharist."

At the name of Jesus

every knee should bend,

of those in heaven and on earth and under the earth,

and every tongue confess that

Jesus Christ is Lord,

to the glory of God the Father.

The desecration in Milan...  If the world will not stop - at least the Church can and should.

May the most holy, most sacred, most adorable, 

most incomprehensible and unutterable Name of God 

be always praised, blessed, loved, adored 

and glorified in Heaven, on earth,

and under the earth,

by all the creatures of God,

and by the Sacred Heart of Our Lord Jesus Christ,

in the Most Holy Sacrament of the Altar.

Amen.

"I firmly wish that my Face reflecting the intimate pains of my Soul, 

the suffering and love of my Heart, be more honored! 

Whoever gazes upon me, already consoles me" - Our Lord to Blessed Pierina.