For our next talk, we'll have Stephen Schleader.

He's a theologian and architect.

He's the president of Liturgical Environs, a design firm.

And he's the author of Architecture and Communion and several other booklets for Catholic Truth Society.

I'll be a little self-indulgent. When I was a third-year architecture student of Virginia Tech, I came across

Mr. Schleader's Architecture and Communion, and it was a very impactful read for my time sort of wrestling with these design ideas

and also the state of church design.

His architectural work has been featured in faith and forum,

ministry and liturgy, and church building.

He's the founding director of the Institute for Studies in Sacred Architecture.

And in his spare time, he has put together this wonderful talk for us, which is titled,

I was carried away to a mountain, great and high, the analogical intentions of the medieval cathedral builders.

Please join me and welcoming Stephen Schlaeder.

Thank you all for attending. Thank you to the Temistic Institute for hosting this event. I want to particularly thank Dr. Hughes for laying out an anthropology and a view of the human person, which we all have to, it's not the thing I'm talking about in this thing, but it was so spot on to understand how buildings work, how churches work on the, and why we are called

to this vision.

So the building of Notre Dame was started around the year St. Dominic was born.

It was the cathedral that St. Thomas Aquinas knew and undoubtedly prayed in while regent master at the University of Paris.

Over the years, it had fallen into a derelict state through the rough handling of the supposedly enlightened men of the 18th century,

who turned it into a temple of reason.

In the mid-19th century,

it was revivified, largely through Victor Hugo's book, which we know is the hunchback of Notre Dame, and it became a rallying point of French pride. Hugo's work was translated immediately into many, many languages,

and it kind of put shame on the French people in the city of Paris

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