"You know, you have to suffer if you want to win. Jesus had to die and resurrect. That's the kind of thing we expect from our players. You must be ready to suffer in order to win or earn us some victory. You must risk everything and sweat and fight or be knocked out," he said.
Wow, a comparison of Jesus and hockey, interesting.
pastoral activity Bauer plans to assign.
Gotta be a game of hockey doesn't it.
Course assignments include studying media coverage of the Canadiens, reading chapters from the book La religion du Canadien de Montréal (co-edited by Bauer and Jean-Marc Barreau), and writing essays.
That's awesome.
"If they can make connections between religion and sport, it helps get people involved; there will be a lot of diversity."
I like this argument.
"We really want to see what everyone wants to say.…
Bold to assume it is what everyone want to say.
More Than a Game, Less Than a God: Canadian Hockey.
Good title, made me smile.
Two years ago, shortly after the minister moved to Montreal, he and one of his students decided the university should offer the opportunity to study whether the Canadiens are, in fact, a faith.
Now that I think about it, this would be an excellent idea at AU, for other sports of course.
In Prof. Olivier Bauer's class at the Université de Montréal, worshippers can argue that their team is their religion. "It's a divine inspiration," Bauer said of the idea behind the theology course that begins in January 2009.
Interesting that someone with this education advises this kind of idea.
The arena is their temple, the players are their saviours, and those who worship them pray that the sacrifices made on the ice — of blood, sweat and tears — will lead them to glory.
An interesting idea.
Fans of the Montreal Canadiens pray that the sacrifices made on the ice of blood, sweat and tears will lead them to glory.
Intense for sports, I like it.
Graduate course set to debate whether one of Quebec's biggest passions is a religion
I laughed when I read this, I am a HUGE sport guy, but this is silly.
If that was the start of the Quiet Revolution,it wasn't very quiet.
No, not quiet at all.
hit Montreal's favorite son with a harsh penalty
An interesting way of putting it, shows possible influence on the whole situation.
ocked him in the jaw, scattering teeth like jujubes
Quite the image, that one.
50 goals in 50 games
I commented on this on a previous article, that is impressive.
twice viciouslyslashed his nemesis
A phrase you would expect to hear in The Incredibles, not a hockey game.
No athlete has embodied the soul of a city and the spirit of itspeople as Richard did in the 1940s and '50s in Montreal, my homefor the past 21 years.
This statement is interesting considering how influential sports figures are in the United States nowadays.
windows, looted stores, overturned cars and 137 arrests
This sounds like times not too long ago in the United States.
There are moments when life gets in the way, when sports and thereal world collide at some intersection
This statement sets the tone for the article, however it is funny that the author excluded sports from the real world.
tear-gas bomb thrower
This is a wild thing to even think about.
They pulled cabbies from their taxis and beat them
Wow, seems unnecessary.
The barrage continued. Peanuts, tomatoes,
Sounds like when people would dislike a play and would throw things on stage.
There are no women, only men
This obviously is significant, according to the manner in which it is said, but why is this the case? a sign of the times?
Queen Elizabeth Hotel, after Britain’s new teenage monarch
I have been learning about her, with the new show "Crown" on Netflix!
asbestos mines based in Asbestos, Quebec
Is asbestos named after this city?
X-rays
I just had an x-ray a couple months ago, so I understand what he's going through.
Bashin’” Bob Bailey, in the face with his stick.
Nice nickname, and ouch.
The 12,023 fans brace themselves.
Saying "brace themselves" and for them to be talking about fans of a sporting event, is interesting.
No one can know when the anger of men, whipped indefinitely, becomes sculpted into political revenge
Crazy that anything political has anything to do with hockey.
After the riot, the NHL began to crack down on all-out brawls (especially carrying your stick into one), though it would take another 25 years for the changes to take effect with the institution of the third-man-in rule.
So funny to me that this sport still allows violence. Awesome though.
Conspiracy theories now abound, especially one that says the "hearing" with the players involved a few days later was a sham because the decision had been made.
Pretty interesting.
137 arrests
Woah.
He was a talent so large that Conn Smythe, owner of the Toronto Maple Leafs, offered a million dollars to the Canadiens for him (about $10 million today)
Interesting! Does the hockey transfer market work the same way as European soccer does?
in 1945 became the first to score 50 goals in a season (in 50 games, no less)
I'm not big into hockey, but a goal a game average is a pretty good stat sheet.
Many of them hated each other with the type of passion only love can understand, as paleontologist Steven Jay Gould once observed of 1950s New York baseball.
That's quite the description.
The power of the English seigneurs in Montreal, who many angry French believed to be modern economic descendants of New France's landowners that treated their farmers as serfs before the system was abolished in 1854.
Already shows the culture divide.
Sticks were high, fists flew, blood often smeared the ice, and the owners thought this was all manly and a great way to sell tickets.
That is sport right there. Brilliant.
Maurice Richard said many times that, in order to understand the events leading up to the riot of March 17, 1955 that forever bears his name, it was crucial to know how violent the National Hockey League was in those days.
I like that, in the instance of a political issue like a riot, Maurice wanted to include the violence of hockey, shows the importance of the sport to the culture.
We've also explored Babe Ruth's Canadian origins.
Babe Ruth's Canadian origins? Interesting!
Maurice Richard, left, played with a fire that made him one of hockey's all-time greats but could also land him in trouble — most dramatically in March of 1955.
Picture shows the "fire." I like the hockey.
alien race
Alien race, interesting.
piercing cries
Made me cringe picturing that.
"You know very well, Maria, how I feel toward you. I said nothing before as my farm was not so forward that we could live there comfortably, and moreover I guessed that you liked François Paradis better than me. But as François is no longer here, and this young fellow from the States is courting you, I said to myself that I, too, might try my fortune ..."
Feels like one of those sitcom romances, at least that is how I am picturing it.
No one asked Maria any questions that evening, or on the following evenings
Emphasis on the events currently happening in the story, leaving her to peace.
Before coming to these parts were you farmers in your own country?" "No
Far different than in Ohio, farms are everywhere.
Hail Mary
A football play, interesting to be seen in a different context.
snow-flakes sifting lazily from the skies
I like the wording on this, makes me think to back when I was younger playing in the snow.
eaten by the flies, and in the course of the same day soaked with rain and roasted by the sun."
Sounds... wonderful.
"Immaculate heart of Jesus, have pity on us..."
I can almost hear the voice. Sad.
"When you left Mistassini he was but so high..."
That is the standard family gathering, "I remember you when you were this tall. Funny imagery.
sweet patter of the rain,
Induces a happy feeling, I too like the "sweet patter of rain"
warm robe of gray goat-skin
Goat-skin, first time I have heard of that used as a robe.
"Not badly, my lads, not so badly."
This line reminds me of my British teammates
too much infested with the Iroquois Enemies
"infested" would imply a less than human idea.
enemies of the Faith,
To follow the religion theme, this quote creates a divide between the Natives and the French.
girdled his mouth, cut off his nose, and tore off his lips
Wow, very descriptive. Shocking description.
ntil the Father who has charge of that Mission had assured him that in that feast there was no sin. This little Angel was brought to us; and he died in our arms, praying even till death, and telling us that he was going straight to Heaven, and that he would pray to God for us; and he even asked his mother [page 113] for which of his relatives she wished him to pray chiefly, when he should be near God
A great show of religion throughout the story, seems prominent in the culture.
pierced him through and through
Very descriptive writing throughout, used to show how brutal the situation is.
very humble
If you call yourself "very humble," does that give off the opposite idea?
men, women, and children
A show of savagery as to show no mercy to the women and children.
1649
Just taking note of how long ago this was. We are closer 2300 than this date, that is crazy.
Others came to drink his blood, still warm, which they drank with both hands
Something so graphic and outrageous. Quite the portrayal.
barbarians
Still using negative and dehumanizing terms to continue the narrative.
tormented him
Describes the truly grueling nature of the ordeal.
The little settlement of Three Rivers is so slightly defended that the French are in daily peril of their lives
Foreshadowing a possible effective attack later in the story.
half-decayed bodies
A common term of imagery it seems, along with the rest of this paragraph, really pushes the savage narrative.
"Demon who dwellest in this place, here is some Tobacco which I present to thee; help us, guard us from shipwreck, defend us from our enemies
In summary of the whole story, this specific quote embodies how wild these stories are.
sacrifice.
Shows primitive nature, amongst everything else in the story.
half-decayed corpse
Interesting. Adds to the shock value of the story.
For not having been willing to acknowledge God in their habits and actions, they have lost the thought of him and have become worse than beasts in his sight, and as regards the respect they have for him.
An absolutely slanderous statement. Wow.
Savages
The word "savage" is mentioned a total of 65 times in this paper.
savages
Again, savages is mentioned.
savages
First mention of the word "savages."
mingled, however, with fear lest these savage neophytes may grow restive when placed under greater restrictions on their moral and social conduct, than have thus far seemed advisable to the cautious missionaries.
A show of judgement.
The "sorcerers," or medicine men, practice all their arts to bring rain, but without success, and attribute their failure to the cross erected by the missionaries
Begins with belittling the Native's culture, then sets the tone of conflict by using the word "blame."