Friday, February 14, 2025
6:30 pm ET | Pavilion Auditorium
“Forever building, and always decaying, and always being restored.” (T.S. Eliot)
The Encounter opens with a presentation by Philippe Villeneuve, Chief Architect of the Reconstruction of the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris, introduced by Cardinal Seán O'Malley, Archbishop Emeritus of Boston
"What has to happen, in order for the new encounter to be the ‘new encounter’ is to become again what we were. What were we? Nothing! Therefore, we must become again what we were, illuminated by a light that no one could build, could build for himself, on his own. The new beginning is the object of an entreaty, of a begging."
—Fr. Luigi Giussani
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