"The fans, they pray for two things. The first is that the Canadiens will win. The second thing is that they pray for the Canadiens to crush the Maple Leafs, but I think you don't need any God for that," he said with a laugh.
Are the prayers sort of a joke then? They would have to believe in God to really believe in prayer.
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.
Does this mean faith as in a religion?
The Richard Riot is generally considered the firstexplosion of French-Canadian nationalism, the beginning of asocial and political dynamic that shapes Canada to this day
I wonder if this is something taught in their history classes?
No athlete has embodied the soul of a city and the spirit of itspeople as Richard did in the 1940s and '50s in Montreal
this is interesting because we often see athletes completely embody a city and their atmosphere.
Yet Richard had a dark side. His intensity sometimes provoked violence. His tantrums had become as legendary as his goals.
As someone that runs very hot and has played a lot of sports it is very easy to get frustrated on the court, ice, field, etc.
You’ve never seen a hockey player like Maurice Richard. Not Crosby. Not Gretzky. Not Orr, Beliveau, Howe. None of them had the talent, the intensity, the will to take over a game like Richard.
Respectfully I don't know about the talent aspect of this. I'm sure he was amazing and his intensity was unmatched, but Crosby is the most talented player to put on skates in my opinion.
Maurice Richard-le Rocket, Montreal’s homegrown French-Canadian star from the city’s blue-collar Nouveau-Bordeaux neighborhood,
Cool to see he stayed in his area. i'm sure he could have played elsewhere and I always appreciate a great athlete staying close to home.
And the Rocket, who always refused to align himself with a political party, would lead his teammates to five straight Stanley Cup victories until retiring in the spring of 1960 with 544 regular-season goals to his credit.
Always good to see things work out. I never knew that they won so many Stanley cups.
The president really worked for the six owners, five of whom wanted the book thrown at Richard for the Boston incident.
Very corrupt way to run a business.
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.
This is interesting because I watch a lot of sports including hockey and hockey is pretty well known for violence and aggression. Hard to imagine a time where it was even more violent.
"There are very few this year," said François. "It was the spring frosts that killed the blossoms."
I wonder how much of an impact this had on them
their saucers with molasses in which they soaked large pieces of bread;
Is that like syrup?
if it misses turning wet it will be by very little
What does turning wet mean? Rain?
One of the seven deadly sins is gluttony or overeating. Interesting to see it come up here.
he high blue hills on the other side of Lake St. John which closed the horizon behind them
Sounds like the nature was extremely beautiful.
Fifty cents wouldn't even get you a slice of bacon today, yet alone a whole pig.
We have, nevertheless, tried to assist, out of out own poverty,
I think this shows the state of resources in New France.
I wasn't aware that boiling water was used for baptisms.
The other Missions have been efficiently aided by these examples, which have preached louder than our words; and, no doubt, the Angels of Heaven have [page 109] taken pleasure in seeing, in all the regions of this country, the Faith respected, and the Christians glorying in that name which was in reproach there oil very few years ago
I feel like the angels wouldn't be pleased if they knew how the religion was spreading. Many of these indigenous people were treated very poorly and forced into Catholicism.
What does enemy refer to here? Is it satan?
Does this contribute to their new farming strategy?
Interesting way of putting this. Blessed deaths is not a term I've heard before and it seems somewhat contradicting.
Is this in the same sense of renting like we would do today with houses?
I say this to show how easy it will be, with time and divine aid, to lead these Peoples to the knowledge of their Creator, since they already honor so especially a creature which is so perfect an image of him
Are they trying to relate the two religions? Or is it more so showing them their religion in hopes that it will make more sense to them?
Father, Son, Master, Valet, but are obliged to say one of the three, my father, thy father, his father. However, I have translated above in a Prayer one of their nouns by the word Father, for greater clearness. On this account, we find ourselves hindered from getting them to say properly in their Language, In the name of the Father
This is another example of a difficulty with the language barrier. Translating scripture and prayers had to be extremely difficult and time consuming.
This Winter, we were on the point of fleeing; but where could we conceal our few belongings?
So the only thing keeping them there was the inability to conceal their belongings?
This exercise also enables us to improve greatly in the use and knowledge of the language
The language barrier must have made it very difficult to communicate complex things like religion and spirituality.
This is really interesting. Was this a tool used to convert these people to their religion? What happened when they weren't healed? Did they stop believing and have some sort of a rebllion?
BAPTISM
Baptism is different for different religions. How is it used in this instance with the Indigenous people?