Good morning guys!
Morning!
It’s a little bit early so I still have my morning voice but
we are headed this morning to Mass at Notre Dame Cathedral to the Gregorian Mass.
So we are staying in Montmartre and from here it’s about forty-five minutes on the metro
to get to the cathedral so that’s where we’re headed now.
These steps that we’re going down right now are in the movie Amélie
so of course we love them.
Yeah.
We try to take them as much as we can.
Yeah.
And this is the subway stop in Amélie where she’s explaining all the things to the blind man
and then she drops him here.
There are a lot of steps in Montmartre and this subway station is no exception.
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So we’ve just coming from seeing the Gregorian Mass at Notre Dame Cathedral
and it’s definitely worth coming to see this cathedral if you’re in Paris.
It’s enormously old and historic.
They started building it in 1163
and they’ve been doing Mass there for a very long time -
sorry, I’m sick - and they have regular Masses.
So if you would like to go and visit then I would highly recommend going during a Mass
either to partake yourself and sit in on it or to visit around the periphery while there’s a Mass going on
because of the music.
They play beautiful, beautiful music.
There’s a full choir.
They have soloists.
You’ll hear the priests chanting and I just think it’s absolutely beautiful
and it’s like time travel because when you look up and ignore the lights and the speakers
and kind of use your imagination, to me, it’s like being there at any time,
you know, from now until the 1100s when it was built.
So it’s a really special opportunity, I think.
Did you enjoy it?
I loved it, yeah.
I couldn’t understand anything they were saying because it was all in different languages.
Yeah.
But it was just neat to be there and look around and feel that energy in the air and…
…and the ritual and the symbolism and, yeah, I didn’t understand anything either but
to me that’s not the point.
It’s just being there in that space and feeling that energy and
having that music cascade over you from the organ as well.
Oh my god the organ is unbelievable the way that enormous organ sounds
when it plays and just the sound reverberates throughout this massive cathedral.
To me that’s…that’s worth it
and the choir is so, so beautiful.
And looking up at the stained glass is also incredible.
Yes!
The stained glass dated back to about the 1200s which is just mind-boggling.
It really is unbelievable.
So highly recommend going to see Notre Dame first of all
and it’s incredible from the outside as well.
You can see the beautiful details and the towers and the gargoyles that dot the outside.
It’s…it’s really something to see
and going during Mass, again, is what I would recommend.
For sure.
I personally found it really meaningful to be there and I’m…I’m glad that we went
this Sunday morning and now the sun is out and
it’s just a beautiful feeling to come out from Notre Dame Cathedral
and find yourself in the middle of Paris on a Sunday morning.
Wow.
I think we should go get some ice cream.
I think so too.
So hopefully you guys enjoyed this little peak into the cathedral
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Bye!