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The funeral of Agostino Cuntrera tomorrow morning will be closely watched by police, and maybe by others. Seems the Rizzuto clan has their own funeral parlour. (And are starting to need it.)
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There was a bomb scare at the École des hautes études commerciales this morning, which Radio-Canada says interrupted an exam. (On a Sunday morning!) But nothing was found. I’m guessing that after the bomb in Trois-Rivières early Friday they’re taking no chances.
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Despite talk about the irrelevance of the monarchy etc. etc., I find it amusing that La Presse is following Queen Elizabeth’s visit in more detail than any other source.
Note to La Presse: if the Queen is in church, it isn’t going to be for mass. She’s Church of England and would’ve been in an Anglican cathedral in Toronto. To be honest I’m not sure how the service would be described or how it should be named in French, although I’m pretty certain messe is specifically Roman Catholic.
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For a hot Sunday afternoon, some interesting blog entries: Spacing Montreal tots up some of the responses to its best things in Montreal poll with some lists of best tourist spots, best streets and the like. I’d have to say there are no surprises.
(As I type this at 6 p.m. I am listening to a minor but interesting Montreal thing: the bells of the Hungarian church on Guizot just west of the Main. These are some of the weirdest church bells in the city. I’ll have to record them sometime and put up a sound file, but if you’re near there at noon or 6, give a listen.)
Midnight Poutine has an interesting recent post of a sort of travelogue walking north through Montreal, east of Saint-Denis, and some interesting finds in food and drink.
Frank Hashimoto writes about his seven years in Montreal and how they compare to his expectations.
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As in previous summers, St. Michael’s on Saint-Viateur will be open Tuesday through Saturday from 9:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. till August 21. Regardless of one’s attitude to religion, it really is worth a visit to see the Guido Nincheri ceiling or just experience the unique building as a cool quiet sanctuary on a hot afternoon. -
More on the historic flight of the Comte de Lesseps over Montreal exactly 100 years ago in a tiny plane, a replica of which can be seen at City Hall this week.
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Andy Riga has some statistics on commuting in Montreal pulled from the recent IBM poll taken around the world. He has further data in his blog.
ery 22:59 on 2010/07/04 Permalink
Anglicans have mass too. There is not that much difference between Anglican and Catholic, the biggest being Anglicans replace the pope with the Monarch.
I thought maybe you were confusing Mass with Communion but it seems they do that too.
Kate 23:37 on 2010/07/04 Permalink
I was thinking of Henri IV’s “Paris vaut bien une messe” which implies he was ready to stop being a Huguenot and convert to Catholicism to become king of France. But maybe that’s out of date.
Also historically it was a giant hulking difference whether you had the Pope or the monarch. It wasn’t so long ago that people were shooting at each other in Ireland over the difference, among other things.
Grego 01:21 on 2010/07/05 Permalink
“Mass” is actually used by many Anglicans to describe their church services. See schedule here for example: http://www.stjames.bc.ca/
Kate 07:07 on 2010/07/05 Permalink
OK I give in. I don’t know squat about Anglicanism, obviously!
ery 10:29 on 2010/07/05 Permalink
I’m pretty sure Henry IV was Catholic. English Monarchs have been claiming the French throne since at least Henry II. They were both French after all.
The split with Anglican and Catholic came from Henry VIII who was a devote Catholic and was studying to become a priest before his brother dies and he became next in line, and also claimed the throne of France. The differences were mostly political rather then theological.
I can’t believe I found a use for knowing this stuff.
Kate 16:44 on 2010/07/05 Permalink
ery, this was the point. Henri of Navarre was a Huguenot, a Protestant. He agreed to convert to Catholicism in 1593 after a lot of scuffling. He only became le roi Henri IV in 1594 after his conversion. That’s what “Paris is worth a mass” means: he was giving in to the inevitable and adopting the Catholic church to be able to become king of France. (That’s radically simplified. Read the Wikipedia article if you want to know more.)
ery 18:43 on 2010/07/05 Permalink
Actually that is where you had me confused, because I don’t know a lot about Huguenots except they came later in European history than the schism between the English throne and the Pope. The Henry you’re referring to is Henry IV of France who has little to do with the Church of England and by 1593 Henry VIII of England had already been dead for about 50 years.
Maybe that is where you are getting confused? While England has their Monarchs like Henry I II III IV etc… France also Has their own Henry’s I, II, III, IV etc… So even though England’s Henry’s called themselves King of France they were not in fact Kings of France. A good example of this is Charles V Holy Roman Emperor, who’s number changed depending on what title was being referred to. He was Charles V HRE Charles I of Spain, Charles I of Austria, Charles II of Burgundy etc… He had a lot of titles.
The point is, Henry IV of France has nothing to do with Elizabeth II attending mass and the differences between the Church of England and the Catholic Church are not that huge as far as I can tell, but what do I know, I’m Orthodox and know less about the differences there:)
Kate 23:43 on 2010/07/05 Permalink
I assure you I’m not confused and haven’t mixed up the Bourbons and the Tudors. My only point was that if Henri of Navarre said “Paris vaut bien une messe” he meant a MASS, a Catholic Mass, and not any other form of church service. However, that point is moot as several other people have demonstrated to me that, in this day and age, other Christians sometimes call their church services “mass.”
Read the Wikipedia article on Henri IV. He really started out as a Protestant.