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Hi, I'm Jim Denison, the Denison Forum, and this is the Daily Article Special Edition

for April 15th, 2020.

The great bell of the Notre Dame de Paris Cathedral will ring out tonight.

Today marks the one-year anniversary of the blaze that consumed the spire and roof of the 850-year-old

cathedral.

Officials say the fire came within half an hour of burning the building completely to the ground.

The building will ring at 8 p.m. Paris time, coinciding with the hour when Parisians

applaud from their windows and balconies in support of frontline staff risking their lives to treat

COVID-19 patients. The pandemic has killed nearly 16,000 people in France. According to President

Emmanuel Macron, the restoration of Notre Dame is a symbol of the resilience of our people,

of their capacity to overcome hardships, and to recover. He reiterated his promise to rebuild the

cathedral within five years. Work is running months behind schedule, delayed by winter storms and now the

pandemic, nonetheless, as the retired Army General leading the restoration project said,

our objective is to prepare the cathedral for Mass on April 16, 2024.

More than 2,200 people in America died from the coronavirus outbreak yesterday, which is a one-day

record. In the face of such a threat, hope is vital to life.

You and I are made by God to need help beyond ourselves, just as babies cannot survive without

the protection and provision of the parents, so we cannot do life alone. Even if we could find

a way to produce our own food, shelter, protection, and medical care, we need other people psychologically

and socially.

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