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  1. Dec 2019
    1. "Sport is part of culture and a good way to learn about another country… To discover why people are so passionate about it, it's like, 'Tell me what your sport is and I'll tell you who you are,' " he said.

      Thats what Canada is known for, their hockey. Its what define them apart from other countries.

    2. "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.

      Maybe hockey is getting them close to God.

    3. If they can make connections between religion and sport, it helps get people involved; there will be a lot of diversity."

      They shouldn't, sports and religion is different.

    4. When we learned about the 100th anniversary, we thought it was a good time to talk about the relationship between sport and religion, especially between the Habs and the religious context in Montreal and in Quebec," Bauer said.

      have to do with leaders and the head of it with other people following the sport.

    5. 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.

      It was a church.

    1. There is love in their applause, genuine affection, certainly gratitude for all of the memories, the good feeling he brought them with the goals and the victories and the Cups. And, there is more, not just admiration, not just respect, but reverence,

      He was very well respected.

    2. The majority of those gathered to protest, even those driven to throw garbage at Campbell, were most likely hockey fans upset by a ruling that hurt their team.

      To me its only a sport not that serious.

    3. “Because I always try so hard to win and had my troubles in Boston, I was suspended. At playoff time, it hurts not to be in the game with the boys.

      Too much pressure on him.

    4. “For 15 blocks they left in their path a swath of destruction,” Katz wrote in Maclean’s. “It looked like the aftermath of a wartime blitz in London.”

      All that damage for nothing and yet I bet they all will have to pay for it in their taxes.

    5. The Forum’s 15,000-plus fans spilled onto streets already clogged with protestors, whose number had swollen into the thousands during the first period. Some headed to neighborhood bars and restaurants, already crowded with holiday crowds. Others simply went home — they would not make the news.

      All just because of hockey.

    6. Forty-five, maybe 60 seconds later — at 9:11 p.m. — the bomb exploded. Twenty-five feet to Campbell’s left,

      Must have been scary and dangerous.

    7. : “If Richard’s name was Richardson you would have given a different verdict.”

      Are they trying to say if he was more English that they would have gone easy on him?

    8. The suspension seemed especially harsh because of its likely consequences. At the time, Richard led the league in points.

      This is going to anger his fans.

    9. Irvin defended Richard, saying he was dazed and did not realize what he was doing, that he mistook Thompson, the linesman, for a Bruin.

      Why defend him? It mostly have to do with his temper.

    10. Richard remained silent during the meeting conducted in English, his second language. When asked to comment, he said, “I don’t remember what happened.”

      Why in English? he still should have spoken in his language.

    11. According to Irvin’s son, his father insisted until his death that the officials altered the facts in their account to please Campbell.

      They are under his control.

    12. Freedom of speech is no longer mine to enjoy. As a hockey player, I am obliged to obey my employer’s orders.”

      I guess in sports freedom of speech works differently.

    13. he fined Richard a record $500 for attacking McLean in the hotel lobby. And just a little more than two months earlier, the president had fined Richard $250 for slapping the linesman Hayes with his glove.

      He is just waisting money because of his tamper.

    14. “When I’m hit, I get mad and I don’t know what I do,” he confided in one writer. “Before each game, I think about my temper and how I should control it, but as soon as I get on the ice I forget all that.”

      Since he can't control his temper than I guess hockey is the right game for him.

    15. Yet Richard had a dark side. His intensity sometimes provoked violence. His tantrums had become as legendary as his goals.

      I knew it. Like I said earlier, he likes to fight and is always starting it.

    16. A disproportionate number of French-Canadians lived in poverty. Only 13 percent finished high school, compared to 36 percent for English-Canadians.

      Seems like a Great Depression.

    17. Richard averaged a goal a game, playing in all 50 games, and the legend took root. By 1955, Richard had scored more goals, 422, than anyone in the history of the NHL

      Must be the best hockey player of all time.

    18. The punishment is worse for Richard.

      The other team started it but he's getting punish and I think its because in every game he's always starting a fight.

    19. Laycoe, the Bruins forward had nailed Richard in the first period. He served two minutes for charging. But the hit lit the fuse of Richard’s infamous temper.

      Wasn't a good idea

    20. Maurice Richard­-le Rocket, Montreal’s homegrown French-Canadian star from the city’s blue-collar Nouveau-Bordeaux neighborhood, the world’s greatest hockey player to that time

      I bet he own every game that he played.

    1. It went on most of the night with fears of a repeat a few hours later as it grew dark again — only quelled when Richard went on radio and TV, asking for calm. He would reluctantly take his punishment.

      It would have lasted longer than that if Richard wouldn't have tried to talk to fans to clam them down.

    2. Catherine, featuring overturned cars, smashed windows, a shot fired from somewhere and 137 arrests.

      Richard must be powerful because his fans are doing all of this just because of him.

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

      I feel that Richard started that fight, even though he is a good hockey player, he sure do like to fight other team mates.

    4. 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.

      Like wrestling so a lot of people goes there to watch the fight and not the game.

    5. how violent the National Hockey League was in those days.

      I have seen hockey and how the players fight against each other and its scary, so I can't imagine how bad it was back than .

    1. The rain was pattering on the roof, and nature, rejoicing that winter was past, sent soft little wandering airs through the casement as though she were sighing in content.

      Theres a lot of nature in this story and it paints a good picture of how it looked and felt.

    2. The soft breeze telling of spring came against the window, bringing a confusion of gentle sounds; the swish and sigh of branches swaying and touching one another, the distant hooting of an owl.

      Can picture this, feeling that soft breeze blowing on me.

    3. Maria still was silent, and yet the sentences of Lorenzo Surprenant beat upon her heart as succeeding waves roll against the shore.

      She must have been angry and was trying to control it. Something was bothering her so much that she was holding it in.

    4. "You are their slaves; that's what you are. You tend them, you clean them, you gather up their dung as the poor do the rich man's crumbs.

      Human as farmers being a slave to their animals. Even though they give framers resources, the farmers are still workers for them because they have to do all of that in order for the animals to deliver.

    5. "We shall have dinner first. What say you, my good friends? You must have found an appetite on the road. As for myself, singing mass makes me hungry beyond anything you could believe."

      Must really love food because not much work was done.

    6. Of the birches, aspens, alders and wild cherries scattered upon the slope, October made splashes of many-tinted red and gold.

      Very beautiful colors especially for fall season.

    7. Every morning the men scanned the heavens and took counsel together. "The wind is backing to the sou'east. Bad luck! Beyond question it will rain again,"

      The wind was blowing that direction too strongly, a storm will be coming. Maybe thats how they could tell rain was coming.

    8. Her young vigour and health, the beautiful heavy hair and sunburnt neck of a country girl, the frank honesty of eye and gesture, all these things, thought he, were possessions of the child of seven years ago; and twice or thrice he shook his head as though to say that, in truth, she had not changed. But the consciousness too was there that he, if not she, had changed, for the sight of her before him took strange hold upon his heart.

      Seems like the one who got away. He is in love with her.

    9. Spring is not far ... Spring is not far ..." In her heart she felt that never since the earth began was there a springtime like this springtime to-be.

      For her winter season was too long and hard so she can't wait for spring, bringing in hope.

    10. Perhaps it is wicked of me to say so; but all my married life I have felt sorry that your father's taste was for moving, and pushing on and on into the woods, and not for living on a farm in one of the old parishes."

      She was follow his orders since he was the head but moving seem like it was a bad idea because why move when things are good on the farm, now they are having hard times.

    11. Azalma was a tall, flat-chested woman with the undeveloped features of a child, who talked very quickly and almost without taking breath while she made ready the meal in the kitchen.

      With her beauty, she seems to love talking and talks fast.

    1. some of our Fathers have thought that God has rewarded this great diligence by that blessed death." Adieu, my Reverend Father;

      Death will be a blessing for them because when they die, life will be easy for them and they will get to see God.

    2. We know not what God reserves for us, and whether a stake and the flames will not perhaps be our portion, as well as that of our Brethren who have died here within so few days for the cause of God.

      God has done more great deeds for us even when we don't deserve it, compare to what we have done for Him.

    3. O my God, why are you not known? " he wrote some time before dying;

      Before dying he felt like he did not do much to convert people, and tell the world about God.

    4. From that time I felt in my soul a great peace, and repose in occasions of suffering.

      At peace, God has relieved his pain and now he has a peace of mind.

    5. Yes, my Jesus and my love, it must therefore be that your blood, shed for the Barbarians as well as for us, be efficaciously applied for their salvation; and this is wherein I wish to coöperate with your grace, and to sacrifice myself for them

      Has a strong faith. The struggle he is going through he understand and is not mad at God.

    6. Others added, mocking, " we treat thee as a friend, since we shall be the cause of thy greatest happiness up in Heaven; thank us for so many good offices,—for, the more thou sufferest, the more thy God will reward thee. "

      Its not true. But it seems that they are enjoying their suffering.

    7. We redoubled our devotions, in which were our strongest [42] hopes, since our help could only come from Heaven

      Now, only God can save them and give them hope.

    8. Some Christians had begged the Fathers to preserve their lives for the glory of God

      They don't need the Father for that, just have to trust in God and ask Him.

    9. But, no doubt, the Providence of God had led him to this death in a special manner; for it was only two days since he had made a general confession,

      So God knew his days were numbered and the holy spirt got to him for him to confess in the eyes of God and people before he die.

    10. The ship Næuf, which sailed from France in the month of march, not having arrived, was accounted lost. We lost thereby the value of 4000 livres

      A lot of things are happing to them.

    11. The great stress of Easter Day, and the great crowd, ceased after high Mass. There were 4 masses

      I understand that its Easter but 4 is a lot of masses.

    12. which was pitiful to see, as well as that of Father [page 33] L'Alemant. Father de Brebceuf had his legs, thighs, and arms stripped of flesh to the very bone; I flaw and touched a large number of great blisters, which he had on several places on his body,

      Very painful. I cant imagine the pain he went through.

    13. We all thought it was the Iroquois who were coming to attack us;

      They must have really been scared because they weren't able to think straight, communicate well. Their fear toke over

    14. Father Daniel, in charge of that mission, is killed while encouraging his flock to resist the enemy, whose sudden and unexpected attack finds the Christians at their little church, attending the celebration of mass

      Must have been hard for them to handle.

    15. A number of Hurons come down to three Rivers and Quebec to spend the winter; they are aided by the Jesuits with food, blankets, etc

      They must have been thankful for the aid.

    16. Montreal that famine prevails there. There is also great scarcity at Quebec; but the Jesuits are able to aid the people there, with "more than 40 casks of grain," for seed and for food.

      They are having a harsh famine, trying to survive hardship.

    1. employ a new language in reference to their morals, and teach them to keep down the flesh, and hold them in the honesty of Marriage, preventing divorces by fear of the judgments of God on the lewd

      They toke the word of God seriously, keeping his commandments. I love how modest they were, taking marriage seriously and holding on to it.

    2. draw the bodies from the tombs in the presence of the relatives, who [page 281] renew their tears and feel afresh the grief they had on the day of the funeral.

      So they dig up the grave just to reminisce the they their love ones day, and to have that feeling back again?

    3. They also punish Sorcerers severely, that is, those who use poisoning, and cause death by charms; [155] and this punishment is authorized by the consent of the whole Country,

      Too harsh.

    4. Besides, while God has admirable consolations for those who fear him, he has much greater ones for those who love him.

      God wants for people to love him more than fear him, through out hard times to always remember Him and keep the faith.

    5. These feasts will often last twenty-four entire hours; sometimes there are thirty or forty kettles, and as many as thirty Deer will be eaten.

      Thats a party and its very long. Must have been fun but a lot of work.

    6. Likewise if it is a poor person, his dreams are held in very little consideration

      Still true in the real world even now a days. Not a lot of resources and opportunity for the poor compare to the rest.

    7. ut a life full of misery, amid the frequent and ordinary dangers of an unforeseen death, which those whom you hope to save will procure for you

      Their job were a bit hard and challenging.

    8. I might have added here many things that have [page 83] taken place this year, and of which we have been eyewitnesses, but [58] I have thought it best to reserve them for a second part of this Relation.

      Many thing happened to them that they witness, with blessings and hard work just trying to show Gods work.

    9. Louys drew the conclusion from it for his relatives that, if they served God faithfully, their Cabin would not be burned even if all the village were afire.

      Will it work?

    10. they did so well that on the same day God gave them rain, and in the end a plentiful harvest, as well as a profound admiration for the divine Power.

      showing them a sign from God. A Miracle happened

    11. Generally speaking they praise an approve the Christian Religion, and blame their wicked customs; but when will they leave them off entirely?

      I feel like when something good happen they praise the Christian religion but went something bad happen they blame God and have thought about going back to their culture.

    12. little [7] boy, who had always been sick and much emaciated before Baptism, had been very well since then

      this prove that their work is not in vein because people are seeing the work of God in them and are coming to reality that there is doing a miracle.

    13. 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.

      The people are open minded, wanting to know about God but they still want to keep their culture alive.