Here's the deal:Watch live video of the canonization ceremony of Brother André, Sunday, Oct. 17, 2010, from 4 a.m. to about 6 a.m. ET, provided courtesy of saltandlighttv.org
.............Sorry folks it was a slow news day...........hahahaha -HF&RV-
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Tuesday, October 12, 2010
If You Have Nothing To Do and All Day To Do It,Then This May Be For You.zzzz
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Hey this should coincide with almost everyone 'just getting home,from a Saturdaynight romp' the Bars will be just clearing out:
-Sunday, Oct. 17, 2010, from 4 a.m. to about 6 a.m. ET, provided by
saltandlighttv.or
Don't Wake Me , I'll Have to take their word on it...............................HF&RV
here's the web address.................YIKES get a load out of the first line:
http://www.saltandlighttv.org/
"Your Catholic Channel of Hope"
ps: it maybe a halfhour later in NFLD (although I doubt they get too many viewers from there----lately)
-----HF&RV-------
Remember those days of the bars closing, and then going to the chinese restaurants for wonderful chinese food. What wonderful memories....
Funtimes indeed, late night eateries, Chineses, or Pizza, or Dilallo's for a burger with peppers. and lot's of other places too.......
but Winston could you imagine someone waking you up at 4 in the morning and suggesting heading out for something to eat ,nowadays...............hahahahaha HF&RV
Les. No, I cannot imagine someone waking up at 4:00am, and going out to get something to eat. The times are changing, and of course we have changed more than I wish to even think about....
Long time coming for frere andre - once met the guy that stole his heart. Was a really weird case, guy well known to cops, basically said drop all charges and it gets put back, if not...Montreal used to be an extremely colourful city with an endless cast of incredible characters...not sure exactly what it is that blunted uniqueness, but you won't see those totally original types kind again..
'characters' -I would have to agree Ken, Montrealers for the most part were all characters.
good or bad ( a matter of opinion) but all seemed to be characters......... Cheers !! HF&RV
also no one need call the law to settle a case,it generally was dealt with quickly.
However that doesn't mean the law wasn't called realatively often.......hahahah
HF&RV
Many years ago I attended College Notre Dame where brother Andre was a door man. The first time my father came to get me at the college, not knowing where to pick me up, he went to the main door and saw a brother in the little office on the side. My father kept knocking on the window to get the attention of the brother that was standing behind the desk. After a while he finally realised it was a wax replica of him in his office.
Since there is another subject. Do some of you remember the chinese restaurant Under Rockhead's paradise and directly in front of Harlem's paradise. Very questionnable food but by that time you were so hungry and pissed you didn't ask questions you just ate the pigeon rice.
a little info about the doorman ( I had never heard this doorman story before) .being a stainc RC like myself I can't figure out why........
Alfred Bessette was born August 9, 1845 in Saint-Grégoire d'Iberville, a small town southeast of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He was the eighth child in a family of twelve and both his parents died when he was still a child. Little Alfred, now an orphan, found work in villages nearby and later went to work in the mills of New England.
After returning to Canada in 1867 (the year of Canada's Confederation) he joined the Congregation of the Holy Cross. At first, the Congregation, a teaching order, was somewhat reluctant to accept the frail and uneducated Alfred but in the end they did. He took the name of Brother André and was given the job of doorman (or porter) at Notre Dame College. He also rang the school bells and helped in the laundry and the infirmary. Throughout his life he suffered from stomach pains and was unable to eat much of the food served at the school but he never complained.
A Doorman at Notre Dame College
As a doorman he had the opportunity to meet many people and when talking to them they often gave him prayer requests. He would lay these prayers before St. Joseph, the Virgin Mary's husband, and many were cured of their illnesses. Brother André became well-known because of these cures even though he insisted, "It is not me, God is responsible, Saint Joseph is responsible."
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Miracles well whoda thunk it:
"Throw Down Your Crutches------for you can See".................lol, HF&RV
I am Protestant and my wife is catholic. When we were dating she took me to see the oratory and I was very amazed at the beauty of the place. I glanced up and saw all the crutches on the walls and asked my future what they were for. She looked at me and said very devout catholics would ascend the steps on the oratory on their knees in penance......and the crutches were there to help them get back down. That was over 35 years ago and I still recall I laughed my ass off over that one.
A man told this one to my father. A man with an artificial leg goes to the oratory and climbs all the steps to the summit on his knees. Once he gets there he stands up and reaching to the sky he Exclaims" Oh Lord please make my leg the same as the other" All of a sudden the guy stumbles all the way to the bottom and once there he realizes that he has two artificial legs. There was an awkward silence...................... You see he didn't know that my father Had an artificial leg.
He still wouldn't have known,even after a silence is my bet,.Did your Dad at least laugh ? or if you were there ,did you laugh ? or was there offence taken . I can see the humour in the joke,but then again I still have two legs, However my oldman ,on the other hand had both of his legs taken off,(diabetes) After the first one he was good for about a year,when they took the second one off later he croaked within a week(what they called complications of diabtetes).Why they ever took off the other leg I don't know,because he wasn't going to make it (so they said ) if they didn't. The flip side is my oldman had a great sense of humour,& would have laughed at that joke anyway, Can't live your whole life in a fishbowl (unless of course your a fish)---lol
----------------Cheers,HF&RV.................
The old man had a good sense of humour. It was more the people around. It's like if someone would say a gay joke and one of the people had a gay son. My father had his leg cut off at 6 years old by the hay cutter driven by his brother, so he had a lot of time to adjust.Though he was always a little shy about it, When we went to Wigwam beach he always kept his pants on. There was a guy at the "nat" that used to go on the high board with just on leg and this guy was an accomplished diver, but you would never have seen my father do that. One time the foot of his leg came out and when my father came out of the car holding his foot in hands Mrs. Elvidge our neihbour was startled! She knew he limped but didn't know about the leg.
Now that would be funny to see Mrs Elvidge face...... My sister-in-laws sister lost a leg when her car was crushed by a semi-truck on the Champlain Bridge many years ago, but she learned to ski after that & has adjusted completely,.Amazing what people can do..........................Cheers !! HF&RV
This Mrs Elvidge you talk about Did she live on Leclair ave in the 70's and have a son named Terry. I too find the joke funny and I also have an artificial leg.
Yes it is Terry now lives in Brossard Their house was either the second or third from Laverendry. I mentionned once how that war alarm used to go off usually in the middle of the night. Terry and is wife Lynn organized the 30th anniversary reunion for Dawson's boys club (and girls now)
Small world I grew up with Terry and drove his mother's taxi in Ville Lasalle part time for a little while.Thanks for the update.
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