-The Cardinal is very down-to-earth, but also seemingly very clever and brilliant. He has had a hard fight with the French Canadian media, and (if I understood correctly) some of the other Canadian bishops. Yet he has fought this fight well.
-The minor seminary project sounds like it has legs already... I'm not sure that it was something that just So there is no decision made at 12 or 13 or even at 17, but there may be a decision to enter the major seminary afterwards, and it is during the specific formation that the last decision is made. appeared because of the Congress (though it could have been). It sounds like my seminary's staff will be in contact with the Cardinal and his staff to provide some insights on the program; in my (admittedly slightly biased) opinion, I think this will bear good fruit. The minor seminary seems to be intended as a house of discernment, and hopefully a feeder to the major seminary there.
-The Extraordinary Form was excluded from the main liturgies (much to my dismay personally), but the FSSP was running liturgies at a parish within walking distance from the rest of the Congress. They even had a Pontifical High Mass on the Saturday of the Congress. It was very much present there, even if it was not present 'officially' and it sounds like the Cardinal had been generous with allowing the EF in the diocese in general.
-In all, I was quite pleased
-At the closing Mass, it rained as hard or harder than it seems in that picture.
The Ark of the New Covenant: Eucharistic Renewal is Seeded in Canada! [Ecumenical]
The Hour of the Eucharist (Part 1) [Ecumenical]
Cardinal: If They Understand the Mass, They'll Come
Tens of thousands accompany Eucharist through streets of Quebec
Holy Father says Eucharist is a ‘mystery of alliance’ not a ‘meal among friends’
Papal Homily For Quebec Congress: "The Eucharist Is Not A Meal Among Friends"
Quebec Awakes (Minor Seminary Will Follow Eucharistic Congress)
Thank you for that report.
I thought it was interesting that they had a Byzantine rite liturgy at the Congress.
I read a very obnoxious letter from a bishop in the Quebec area, denying the TLM to people who had requested it in his diocese, and saying essentially that the Pope was far away, didn’t know what he was talking about, and it was his (the bishop’s) decision to make. He told them there was a mass celebrated in Quebec City, 125 miles away in another dioceses, that they could attend if they wanted to, but he was not going to permit it in his diocese.
I think Cardinal Ouellet is really going to have his hands full dealing with his fellow bishops, who are the ones who have presided over the death of the Faith in Canada. One by one, of course, they will retire and be replaced, hopefully with better ones, but they’re not going to go quietly. Prayers for him! I think the minor seminary idea is great, btw.
You : “The Extraordinary Form was excluded from the main liturgies...”
Me: Your choice of words (”EF was excluded”) connotes a victim mentality (though I assume you don’t have such a mentality). It seems that the ordinary form was offered because that is the universal norm for the Church’s liturgies. Your phrasing is akin to a feminist activist saying “women were excluded from the pulpit”. While the norm is that women do not speak from the pulpit, at times they can licitly do so. To stick to the norm is not a deliberate choice to “exclude”. I will assume you did not intend to sound like an angry perpetually victimized femininst, but wanted to point out that most readers would get that impression from your wording.
Lest you think bad things about me I will cose noting that
I AM TRULY GLAD THAT YOU ENJOYED THE CONGRESS, AND AM HAPPY THAT THE EF MASS IS NOW OFFERED UNIVERSALLY. IN FACT I ATTENDED AN EF MASS LAST SUNDAY.