Who Can Stand When He Appears?

The Reopening of Notre Dame and the Second Sunday of Advent

Yesterday evening, in the midst of trying to festoon with twinkle lights the large piece of greenery we’ve propped up in our living room, I was transfixed by clips on Twitter/X from the opening of Notre Dame in Paris. The church looks amazing—the cream white of the newly cleaned stone, the soaring vault of the ceiling, the exquisite windows, the organ, …