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OTTAWA - Fr. Robert Bedard, founder of the Companions of the Cross, a society of apostolic life in the Catholic Church, died on Oct. 6. He was 82.

Fr. Bedard was born and raised in Ottawa and ordained a priest at Blessed Sacrament Church in Ottawa on June 6, 1955. For many years, he was a teacher at St. Pius X High School in Ottawa.

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Catholic Register crossword #2

 

Across

1.   Napoleon’s exile island
5.   October birthstone
9.   Bill
12.  Bake
14.  Baseball’s ____ Ruth
15.  Coffee
16.  Slogan
17.  Aphrodite’s son
18.  Bullring shouts
19.  Doctor of the Church who was born in fourth-century Egypt
21.  Achy
22.  Farm females
23.  Occurrences
25.  Procession
29.  Snare
30.  Baseball family name
31.  Challenge
34.  Humiliate
38.  Mobs
40.  Actor ___ Chaney
41.  Wearies
42.  Follow
43.  Director ____ Preminger
45.  Robin’s home
46.  “Smooth Operator” singer
48.  1978 musical starring John Travolta
50.  Baby’s toy
53.  Skin opening
55.  Jai ____
56.  Famed theologian and Bishop of Ruspe who was born in fifth-century Tunisia
62.  Nickel or dime
63.  Israel’s airline
64.  _____ firma
65.  Feminine suffix
66.  Jochebed’s wife
67.  Obstacles
68.  Gel
69.  Sews lace
70.  Observes

 

Down

1.   Catholic humorist, ____ Bombeck
2.   Booty
3.   Tub
4.   Famed film canine
5.   Extremely overweight
6.   Capital of France
7.   ____ Ben Adhem
8.   Inferior
9.   Eagle’s claw
10.  Prevent
11.  Foundations
13.  In good shape
15.  _________ Bakhita (Saint and Canossian nun who was born in Sudan in 1864)
20.  Amazed
24.  Immense
25.  Leaf
26.  Actor ____ Alda
27.  Howard and Silver
28.  Author of “Confessions” who was born in third-century Algeria
29.  Big top
32.  Cosmetic additive
33.  Go bad
35.  Zone
36.  Muddle
37.  Villa d’____
39.  Fasten
44.  Mythical monster
47.  Beat
49.  Leases
50.  Contests
51.  Unaccompanied
52.  Pollute
53.  Factory
54.  Leers
57.  Arm bone
58.  Perfect scores
59.  Dies ____
60.  Impel
61.  Backtalk

 

 


Catholic Crossword #1 Solution

Catholic Crossword #1 solution

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TORONTO - Fr. Edwin Platt, a well-known priest who served throughout his hometown of Toronto, died Sept. 17. He succumbed to the stroke that had felled him while he was saying Mass at Corpus Christi parish.

Fr. Platt was 89 and was in his 62nd year as a priest.

Fr. Platt had returned in his later years to the east end where he grew up. He was educated at St. John’s and Corpus Christi Schools before moving on to St. Michael’s College School. He entered St. Augustine’s Seminary and was ordained a priest in 1948.

BARRIE, ONT - Depending on who he was with,  Deacon Ted MacDonnell was affectionately known as detective, sergeant, deacon, pastor, professor, Teddy, dad or papa.

He was a man of many names and even more friends, someone who always had time for people, whether it was in his role as an OPP detective or a deacon in the Church. Above all, though, he was a husband, father of two daughters and grandfather of five children whom he baptized.

“Everyone he came in contact with remembered him warmly and with a genuine smile because dad simply cared,” said his youngest daughter, Janet Small.

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Crossword #1

 

Across

1.   He loves, to Livy
5.   Boast
9.   Waldorf or Caesar
14.  Machete
15.  Possess
16.  Dish
17.  English prep school
18.  Kazakhstan’s ____ Sea
19.  Roof overhangs
20.  St Francis of Assisi: “If you have men who will exclude any of God’s creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you have men who will deal likewise with ______________”
23.  Suffix for musket
24.  Classic car
25.  Hobbles
28.  Peruse
30.  Bill
33.  Weird
34.  Anthracite
35.  Tend
36.  John Paul II: “Animals possess a soul, and men must love and feel solidarity for our _______________”
39.  Lug
40.  Adolescent
41.  Warms up
42.  Chemical suffix
43.  Lean-to
44.  Handbag
45.  Mimic
46.  Total
47.  Mother Teresa: “They, too, are created by the same loving hand of God which created us ... it is our duty to protect them and promote ______________”
55.  Essence
56.  Time periods
57.  Birch, for one
58.  Golfer Palmer, familiarly
59.  Location
60.  Marsh bird
61.  Currents
62.  Golf ball holders
63.  Morays

 

Down

1.   Help a felon
2.   Butterfly’s cousin
3.   Lotion additive
4.   Novelist ____ Morrison
5.   Irritates
6.   More unusual
7.   Egg-shaped
8.   Healthy
9.   Gushed
10.  Site of an 1836 battle
11.  Wash
12.  Two fives for _ ___
13.  ___ Moines, Iowa
21.  Drive off
22.  Papal vestment
25.  Used car, perhaps
26.  Angry
27.  Unit of distance
28.  Garbed
29.  Merit
30.  Skater Lipinski, et al
31.  Mountain crest
32.  Stein and Affleck
33.  Villa d’____
34.  Manitoba native
35.  “Moonstruck” actress
37.  Early anaesthetic
38.  _____ a ride (hitchhike)
43.  Acts maliciously
44.  Heartbeats
45.  Eagle’s nest
46.  Tablet
47.  Actress ____ Hatcher
48.  Lend a ____ (help out)
49.  Bridge seat
50.  A great lake
51.  French 101 verb
52.  Dies ____
53.  Astronaut ____ Armstrong
54.  Sets
55.  Cap

 


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Jesuits in Canada - 400 Years of Service

Friday, 16 September 2011

The Catholic Register is proud to honour the 400th anniversary of the Jesuits arrival in Canada with this 18 part special feature.

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Jesuits in Canada - 400 years of Service - Catholic Register special front cover

Jesuits in Canada
400 Years of Service

Jesuits are a key part of our history

400 years of giving

Wherever they went, Jesuits embraced local ways

Jean de Brébeuf's rules on interacting with the Hurons

Loyola's Spiritual Exercises still at Jesuits' core

A developed mind takes us on a path to God

Setting the world 'on fire with the love of God'

Social justice Jesuit-style is for God's greater glory

Martin Royackers was first English Canadian Jesuit killed in service

Three martyred at China mission

Arts are a tool towards the Jesuit mission goal

The Jesuit Relations opened up the New World to Europe

Finding Jesus through Loyola's Spiritual Exercises

Exhibit unearths gems from Jesuits' history

The formation process for a Jesuit is laborious, lengthy

Experiencing God in ecology

A chronology of the Jesuits in Canada

Jesuit heroes through the years

The journey from theological debate at the University of Paris to a Huron village on the shores of Georgian Bay in the 17th century was long — physically and psychologically. St. Jean de Brebeuf’s “Instructions for the Fathers of our Society Who Shall Be Sent to the Hurons” hints at the cultural chasm Jesuits were prepared to cross.

In 1636 Brebeuf wrote:

You must have a sincere affection for the Huron — looking upon them as ransomed by the blood of the Son of God, and as our brethren with whom we are to pass the rest of our lives.

To conciliate the Huron, you must be careful never to make them wait for you in embarking.

Tuck up your gowns so that they will not get wet and so that you will not carry either water or sand into the canoe.

Be careful not to annoy anyone in the canoe with your hat; it would be better to take your night cap.

You must provide yourself with a tinder box or with a burning mirror, or with both, to furnish them fire in the daytime to light their pipes, and in the evening when they have to encamp; these little services win their hearts.

Each one should be provided with half a gross of awls, two or three dozen little knives called jambettes... a hundred fish hooks, with some beads of plain or coloured glass, which to buy fish or other articles when the tribes meet each other...

You should try to eat their sagamite or salmagundi in the way they prepare it, although it may be dirty, half-cooked and very tasteless. As to the other numerous things which may be unpleasant, they must be endured for the love of God, without saying anything or appearing to notice them. It is well at first to take everything they offer, although you may not be able to eat it at all; for, when one becomes somewhat accustomed to it, there is not too much.

You must try to be, and to appear, always cheerful. You must so conduct yourself as not to be at all troublesome to even one of these Hurons.

Do not undertake anything unless you desire to continue it; for example, do not begin to paddle unless you are inclined to continue paddling.

Finally, understand that the Huron will retain the same opinion of you in their country that they will have formed on the way; and one who has passed for an irritable and troublesome person will have considerable difficulty afterwards in removing this opinion.

(Courtesy of Huronia Historical Parks, abridged from the Jesuit Relations, Vol. XII, 1637. Republished by R.G. Thwaites, N.Y.: Pageant Books, 1959 Pg. 117-123.)



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Jesuits in Canada - 400 years of Service - Catholic Register special front cover

 

Jesuits in Canada
400 Years of Service

Browse print edition

Jesuits are a key part of our history

400 years of giving

Wherever they went, Jesuits embraced local ways

Jean de Brébeuf's rules on interacting with the Hurons

Loyola's Spiritual Exercises still at Jesuits' core

A developed mind takes us on a path to God

Setting the world 'on fire with the love of God'

Social justice Jesuit-style is for God's greater glory

Martin Royackers was first English Canadian Jesuit killed in service

Three martyred at China mission

Arts are a tool towards the Jesuit mission goal

The Jesuit Relations opened up the New World to Europe

Finding Jesus through Loyola's Spiritual Exercises

Exhibit unearths gems from Jesuits' history

The formation process for a Jesuit is laborious, lengthy

Experiencing God in ecology

A chronology of the Jesuits in Canada

Jesuit heroes through the years

When Frs. Pierre Biard and Ennemond Massé arrived in Canada in 1611 their religious order was a relative infant. In 1611, the Jesuits had only been in existence 71 years, compared to the Benedictines who were more than 1,000 years old, or the Dominicans and Franciscans who were each about 400 years old.

But the Jesuits wasted no time in taking the Gospel to the frontiers. Just one year after the Society of Jesus was formally approved by Pope Paul III in 1540, St. Francis Xavier left for the far east. And by the time the Jesuits came to Canada, they had already established missions in the far east, Africa and Latin America.

St. Francis Xavier’s incredible success in India and Indonesia, heroic efforts in Japan and doomed attempt to reach China — all in the space of eight years — established a Jesuit pattern of absolute commitment to spreading the Gospel.

In Jamaica they called Fr. Martin Royackers a “roots man.” Around the world, Jesuits and their friends call him a martyr.

He was the first English Canadian Jesuit to be killed on the job.

Royackers was born and died in farming communities. Born Nov. 14, 1959 near Strathroy, Ont., he was killed outside St. Theresa’s parish church in Annotto Bay, Jamaica, June 20, 2001.