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  1. Nov 2023
    1. We don't just want to look at some games and drink beers. You have to work, but even if you're not a theologian student you can follow the class," he said, adding that those who don't believe the team is a religion can still earn high marks.

      i like how they take a different approach to this

    2. n Prof. Olivier Bauer's class at the Université de Montréal, worshippers can argue that their team is their religion.

      interesting that they call the team their religion

    1. 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.

      they really like him!!

    1. ncensed, Richard swings his stick with two-fisted fury at Laycoe. He hits him with such force across the shoulders that his stick splinters

      this sounds very forceful

    1. Laycoe's story had Thompson trying to wrestle both of them and, in order to get at the Bruins player, Richard smacked the official.

      So does it come back to Thompson?

    1. It is a queer thing," said Conrad Neron, "how every man finds it equally hard to rest content. Here are three who left their homes and came this long way to settle and farm, and here am I always saying to myself that nothing would be so pleasant as to sit quietly in an office all the day, a pen behind my ear, sheltered from cold wind and hot sun."

      interesting how people think the "grass is always greener" on the other side

    2. The morrow was a day of blue sky, a day when from the heavens some of the sparkle and brightness descends to earth. The green of tender grass and young wheat was of a ravishing delicacy, even the dun woods borrowed something from the azure of the sky.

      i really like the descriptions here

    1. A little child of six years was extremely [26] sick in the Mission of saint Michel. His mother was unable to contain her tears, seeing the excess of his pain, and the approach of death to this her only son. " My mother," said to her this child, " why do you weep your tears will not give me back my health; but rather let us pray to God together, so that I may [page 111] be very happy in Heaven." After some prayers, his mother said to him, "

      This is so sad that a child this young had to experience anything like this

    2. On Easter Sunday, father Vimont at the end of his Class did something similar to what father le Jeune did last yea

      I find it interesting how bibilcal this stuff is

    1. This irritates the Sky, it will not fail to take revenge; and, when the corn shall begin to mature, it will without doubt vent upon it the effects of its wrath."

      Do you think it is interesting that they discuss how corn is compared to other things and the maturation of it?

    2. During the day, the Sun burns you; during the night, you run the risk of being a prey to Mosquitoes

      This is so real as it is still understood and applicable in today's world

    3. The evil is, they are so attached to their old customs that, knowing the beauty of truth, they are content to approve it without embracing it.

      Do you think that it is often that people struggle to change or embrace new things due to the old ways of the people around them

    4. Religious and secular, are continually offering their prayers and their vows to God for the conversion of the poor Barbarians of this whole country;

      i find it interesting how we refer to barbarians as bad people but their goal is to convert them to the good people and to follow god