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The Basilica of Sacre Coeur du Montmarte in Paris
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Springtime in Parish, oh how wonderful that would be! Just thinking about it brings back so many wonderful memories of Paris. I think of Gene Kelley dancing in the rain and Audrey Hepburn radiating her lovely presence in the midst of that glorious city.
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I remember celebrating Mass at the high altar of Notre Dame Cathedral at the invitation of the Rector of the Cathedral when he learned that I was leading a group of 40 knights and ladies of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem on a pilgrimage to the Shrine of Saint Therese in Normandy and then on to Rome.
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The Catholic character of France is to be seen in its Architecture and in the memory of the great saints that France gave birth to.
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Up until the French Revolution at the end of the 18th Century France was known in Catholic circles as “The Eldest Daughter of the Church.”
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In 1943 Maisie Ward(4 January 1889 – 28 January 1975) descendant of one of Britain’s distinguished Catholic families, was a writer, publisher, and speaker and wife of the famous writer and publisher Frank Sheed published a book entitled
France Pagan. Frank Sheed taught me apologetics at the University of Fribourg in 1950. Things changed radically in France following the Age of Enlightenment and the French Revolution.
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And things are changing radically in France now. France stopped being the Eldest Daughter of the Church in the 18th Century and is now no longer France Pagan. In the 21st Century France is becoming something else as this video will show you:
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ABYSSUS ABYSSUM INVOCAT / DEEP CALLS TO DEEP 
Dear Henry, it would be great that somebody could translate into Spanish all your great articles , so they could arrived to more and more people who doesn´t read English. Un abrazo Carlos Gracida
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Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2015 03:41:25 +0000 To: carlosmanuelgracida@hotmail.com
All is not lost here in France, our parish St Hillaire is Lead by a good priest, he is very faithfull to the magesterium and his masses are always well attended. You have to get here early on Sunday if you want a seat. He regularly has approx 17 male altar servers and from this rich pool we have two seminarians, the rest of the diocese can muster one ! He wears the traditional cassock and therefore easily spotted at a distance. There is also a group aof about 15 priests who all pull in the same direction. I could go on for sometime about life in this blessed parish but only to say that as a retiree from the UK , I could not have hoped for a better parish. Deo Gratias