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Re: Catholic News
By: Leslie Date: April 2, 2023, 10:19 am
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Today is Palm Sunday and as usual on a Sunday we had four Masses
in the morning and one Saturday night.The 9:30 am this Palm
Sunday,we attended, was jam packed. Does this mean we are having
a religious revival?
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Re: Catholic News
By: Lyn Date: April 2, 2023, 3:48 pm
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I don't know Leslie but many more people do go to church on Palm
Sunday.
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Re: Catholic News
By: Leslie Date: April 2, 2023, 5:12 pm
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You are probably right Lyn. And just wait until Easter Sunday.
Even today a couple were heard complaining after Mass that they
could not get in the church and were sent down to the basement
where a video of the Mass above is transmitted and you sit on
wooden moveable chairs.
We had been seeing a decrease in numbers at church since March
7th , when we returned home.
We got into the Church alright, five minutes before it started,
and found two seats near the back.
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Re: Catholic News
By: Leslie Date: April 2, 2023, 5:42 pm
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(continuing on)
I was number 115 in the Confessionals yesterday. It was busy. We
all had paper sticky numbers to stick in the pews while we
waited. Of course they started at about 9 am Saturday, and I
went in there at 1:30 pm. There was only a 15 minute wait. When
I left the Confessional, my priest said loud enough,I thought.
"So Long." A very unusual ending :)
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Re: Catholic News
By: Lyn Date: April 2, 2023, 9:21 pm
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Coincidentally, Leslie, shortly after I posted my above reply to
you I spoke to somebody here who said what a large congregation
there was at church for Palm SUnday, and it was lovely. You'll
undoubtedly get quite a few at the Maundy Thursday vigil and on
Ash Wednesday. Easter will be great.
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Re: Catholic News
By: Leslie Date: April 3, 2023, 8:55 am
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We are going the morning Mass at St.Paul the Apostle church
tomorrow and for the first time they have no Maltese priest .He
went back to Australia a couple of months ago, and no one else
can pray Mass in Maltese, that my sister-in-law knows of, and
she keeps up to date on the Maltese church. They have a Maltese
soccer club, now in Mississauga, and no longer in or near the
'Junction'* in west Toronto, where all the Maltese settled
before the Young ones moved further west or to Guelph.
So the priest is now from Newfoundland, and has the epistle read
in Maltese, by a parishioner, for the benefit of the very old
people who stayed in their houses in the 'Junction'.
* 'The 'Junction' near Dundas Street West is where Pacific
avenue and C.P.railway meets the CN railway, I understand. The
houses on Laws street where everybody who was Maltese lived ,
that are in extended family, have become very expensive. I don't
recall any railway traffic near them for many years.It was
always a few kms anyway, when it did exist.So there was no
noise.
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Re: Catholic News
By: Leslie Date: April 6, 2023, 6:53 pm
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I have just found out from a relative in this archdiocese whose
volunteer job it is to count the collection money and do
accounting in Mississauga* ,that all the money, yes all of it,
from her church goes directly to the Archdiocese of Toronto .I
find that upsetting, together with the fact that I haven't seen
a set if financial statements for at least two years in our
church in Etobicoke. That probably means all the money from all
the churches goes directly to the archdiocese. But , I cannot be
sure, I need more information.
At before 10 past 7 to night we could not find a parking spot
and could not attend the 7:30 pm Mass.In fact guard rails
prevented one from driving into the parking lot. We had to come
home so here I am.
Tomorrow, there will be two sessions of prayer, one starting at
noon. I hope we attend that one.
* The priest asked her to do it, and she has just started
recently, good soul that she is..
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Re: Catholic News
By: Leslie Date: April 9, 2023, 6:42 am
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Happy Easter to all, this sunny Sunday. We haven't been to Mass
yet, it is too early, and dinner will be cooked this early
afternoon.
Catherine (my wife's sister from Mississauga) dropped in
yesterday afternoon with a Maltese 'figola' and a small Easter
egg. We discussed politics and she unfortunately approves of how
Trudeau handled the pandemic. She knows little else apparently
about how more people voted Conservative than Liberal and how in
a perfect world he wouldn't be running the country.
However, this is not about politics . Malta has a history of
religion beginning with St.Paul's shipwreck there.
St John's Cathedral in Valetta is where my wife went to school
after the war.It houses two paintings by Caravaggio , one 'The
Beheading of John the Baptist' , the other one of St.Jerome
writing the Latin Vulgate. The latter was stolen in 1984 but
later recovered. Caravaggio spent a couple of years in Malta and
was imprisoned in San Angelo, before going back to Italy, where
he died two years later, circa 1609.He was wanted for murder.
I mentioned before that my wife's aunt's husband collected art
, including a Caravaggio which hangs in that three story house,
owned by Ruth her niece, who sends us a Christmas card every
year. I have seen those paintings but did not pay much attention
to them at the time. Nicholas Monsarrat wrote the Kapillan of
Malta there , living in a hut of some kind on the flat roof.I
have a copy of that book upstairs.
Opposite or very close to that house is the HQ of the canonized
priest, Fr, Gorg*,. I have been to these places .
Malta certainly has a deep religious history which the Maltese
take for granted and don't talk much about. I remember having
dinner in that house with the painting when my wife's aunt was
alive.
*St. George Preca
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Re: Catholic News
By: Leslie Date: April 13, 2023, 6:49 am
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To continue a conversation with Lyn on Chat this morning.
There are three good Catholic sources, at least on the internet.
One is the Catholic Thing, one is Catholic Insight and the other
is called CERC. (Catholic Educational Resource Centre).
And neither of my two grandchildren work in Texas anymore, both
are in Canada now.
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Re: Catholic News
By: Leslie Date: April 27, 2023, 5:27 am
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A young man of twenty ,a former student at High School spoke out
at a meeting of the Aurora area York Catholic district school
board (north of Toronto) against gay pride flags and LGBT
propaganda being taught, to the cheers of applauding parents.
This young man was the product of divorced parents, and found
true Catholic beliefs helped him through the emotional crisis
while LGBT teaching is harmful and in direct conflict with
Catholic beliefs and should definitely not be taught in a
Catholic School.
See Lifesite news Canada today for video and CC.
HTML https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/watch-former-student-delivers-powerful-speech-against-lgbt-agenda-at-catholic-school-board-meeting/?utm_source=featured-news&utm_campaign=canada
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