Notre Dame fire: Resurrection resonates
French President Emmanuel Macron, in his response to the devastating fire that destroyed the timber roof of the 850-year-old Notre Dame Cathedral, vowed: “We will rebuild Notre Dame even more beautifully and I want it to be completed in five years, we can do it.” Perhaps unwittingly, Macron echoed the words of Jesus: “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up”.
Hints of the Easter message surfaced in Macron’s address to the French people: “It’s up to us to convert this disaster into an opportunity to come together, having deeply reflected on what we have been and what we have to be, and become better than we are.” We are all mandated, whether by credal statements or party policy, to become our better selves. To make the world a better place, especially for the poor and vulnerable. St Paul expresses our conflicted nature in this regard.
His wounded flesh and broken limbs present him, says the Franciscan priest, Father Richard Rohr, “as the fully innocent one who was condemned by the highest authorities of both ‘church and state’ ”.
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