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Concerts at Notre Dame de Paris

November 3, 2013 by Hugh Nelson 5 Comments

We’ve attended several concerts at Notre Dame de Paris. According to the church’s web site, sacred music has been an important part of Catholic worship for 1500 years. There is wonder in knowing that there have been perhaps 35 generations of worship in that place – many more if you count the Roman religious sites […]

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Paris welcomes a new Pope

March 14, 2013 by Hugh Nelson 2 Comments

Wednesday night’s selection of the new Pope Francis was momentous here in Paris. At about 7 pm the single large bourden bell at Notre Dame started ringing with a low and unmistakable gong. We had heard it only once before, the night Pope Benedict stepped down. I turned on the TV and saw the white […]

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Snowing in Paris tonight

March 12, 2013 by Hugh Nelson 21 Comments

It’s snowing here tonight, and it’s beautiful. I took some photos of Notre Dame de Paris and of the streets near our apartment. There isn’t very much snow, but it also appears that Paris has no snow removal equipment. Police lights are flashing everywhere. It’s slick out there. On the other hand, the metro is […]

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[Notre-Dame de Paris] Ringing in the new: a new set of bells for Notre-Dame’s towers

February 2, 2013 by Hugh Nelson 4 Comments

Our first day in Paris we saw a motorcade parading some huge church bells. It turns out to be the new bells for the Cathedral at Notre Dame, part of the Church’s 850th Anniversary Celebration. It turns out that the replacement bells installed in the 1850’s after the revolution weren’t so great. Now the music […]

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