"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.
This is a very interesting connection. I would never connect sports to what Jesus did on the cross. To me, it is not that serious.
worshippers can argue that their team is their religion.
This is interesting to me and I would be interested to learn more about what makes people of Canada so invested in hockey to practically worship it.
he Richard Riot is generally considered the firstexplosion of French-Canadian nationalism, the beginning of asocial and political dynamic that shapes Canada to this day
this is crazy to me that a hockey riot is so big in history for Canada. I feel like in the United States this would just be something small in the news.
Hockey in Canada was bigger than the church, and Rocket Richard was bigger than the Pope,”
This is VERY bold to say but also makes a statement about how big hockey really was in Quebec.
n 1939, when war broke out in Europe, the 18-year-old Richard tried to enlist for active duty, but military doctors determined his wrists and ankle — already broken during hockey games — had not healed properly. He tried to enlist again the following year,
If there is war going on, you would think they would want any and all people to enlist regardless of a small bone breaks.
“RICHARD GOES INSANE”
This headline will get people talking and stories will be flying all around about what actually happend.
Richard's story had linesman Cliff Thompson holding him back, arms pinned, while Laycoe was allowed to smack away. Rocket said he warned the linesman three times to let him go before he finally clocked the official.
Even though the majority of history is told by telling and retelling of stories things can get switched up very easily and this is a prime example of that.
offered a million dollars to the Canadiens for him
I couldn't imagine someone giving someone else money for my abilities. Didn;t sound like Richard was offered the money.
t was crucial to know how violent the National Hockey League was in those days.
Hockey has always been known to be a violent sport in America. I wonder if it is worse in Quebec?
AFTER a few chilly days, June suddenly brought veritable spring weather.
Throughout this novel the weather has not made sense. It has talked about spring weather in June and the beginning of the book talked about snow in april
He had suddenly waked and put his hand out for the whip. Charles Eugene resigned himself and began to trot again. Many generations ago a Chapdelaine cherished a long feud with a neighbour who bore these names, and had forthwith bestowed them upon an old, tired, lame horse of his, that he might give himself the pleasure every day when passing the enemy's house of calling out very loudly:—"Charles Eugene, ill-favoured beast that you are! Wretched, badly brought up creature! Get along, Charles Eugene!" For a whole century the quarrel was dead and buried; but th
This story reminds makes me think of an old man sitting at a table telling his grandchildren a old story. This is one way that history gets passed on!
What gave him this courage was, on one side, distrust of himself; and, on another side, confidence in God, in the comp
You can do all things through christ
,—blessing God for having called them with so much gentleness. A young girl of fifteen years, among the most accomplished in the country, still a Catechumen, had been taken captive toward the end of last year's disinter; the enemies, however, had spared her life, and she remained with them in her captivity. She was the daughter and sister of two excellent Christians, who had no greater regret in the loss which they had incurred, than that this poor captive had not [30] yet been baptized. She, too, in her captivity did not forget her faith and often exclaimed to God: "
This girl and her family were probably questioning their faith. Why would God let something like this happen?
was then that those Barbarians rushed upon him with as much rage as if he alone had been the object of their hatred. They strip him naked, they exercise [page 91] upon him a thousand indignities; and there was hardly any one who did not try to assume the glory of having given him the final blow, even on seeing him dead
The natives were known for doing horrible things and feeling no remorse
All took place in Holy week very nearly as last year; the washing of feet at the hospita
This is a religious practice. Jesus washed peoples feet
purification
is this the same thing as baptism? I feel like it could be, purifying one of their sins and getting the gift of the holy spirit
we sent a few bouquets of flowers to them
What made them decide to do send these?
Those butchers, seeing that the good Father began to grow weak, m
All of this is awful!
This gives the Fathers new courage, and they even strive to extend their labors to more distant tribes.
Do tribes do different things and extend them to each other? Is it like how different countries trade?
I had forgotten to say that usually, during this whole ceremony, the mother or the wife will be at the foot of the grave calling to the deceased with singing, or more frequently complaining in a lugubrious voice.
I wonder if these rituals have been passed on and are still practiced.
After having fasted eighteen days without tasting anything, it was said, except tobacco, he came to see me; I gave him seven or eight raisins; he thanked me and told me he would eat [141] one every day—that was in order not to break his fast. On the fourteenth of February, making the round of Cabins as usual, he found the people preparing a feast;
This was an insane fast
Here is another of their fables, of like tissue
I am catching on that Quebec's history and teachings has a lot to do with stories and fables. I have now read several
There are some who do not soar so high, and are not so ambitious as to believe that they derive their origin from Heaven
I love this view!
On the eighth of June, the Captain of the Naiz percez, or Nation of the Beaver, [57] which is three days journey from us, came to request one of our Frenchmen to spend the Summer with them, in a fort they had made from fear of the Aweatsiwaenrrhonon, or stinking tribe, who have broken the treaty of peace, and have killed two of their men, of whom they
If they traveled that far, I do not see the captain taking no for an answer. He will be leaving with a Frenchmen
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. Their usual reply is, oniondechouten, "Such is the custom of our country." We have fought this excuse and have taken it from their mouths, but not yet from their hearts; our Lord will do that when it shall please him.
I think this is saying that even if they try to change the evil in them it is still there deep down. Only God himself can take the evil away from someone. He will do this on his time not on anybody else's
or their councils, their feasts, their games, and their dances do not permit us to have them here at any 'hour, nor every day
Is this because they think they are too savage?
impart life to the soul, and not to the body.
Was this a choice? Or were children told/forced to be baptized.
poor Barbarians of this whole country;
Wow... calling the people of this country barbarians? Wanting to convert these types of people