What a beautiful flag!

I think this flag is amazing and it's too bad we don't see it flying today...



"The Fleurdelisé that flew over the Saint-Jude presbytery on September 26, 1902, was made by Father Elphège Filiatrault, who proclaimed, “We are a new people on American soil. A new people need a new flag.” (NOTE 3) Borrowing from the Carillon banner the blue field that it was thought at the time to have had, and replacing the royal arms and the Madonna by a white cross that evoked France, Filiatrault’s flag was meant to represent French-Canadian values. 

At the same time, two Flag Committees were formed, one in Quebec City, the other in Montreal. These committees also proposed adoption of the blue flag with fleurs-de-lis inspired by the Carillon banner, but they urged that a Sacred Heart be added at the centre, surrounded by maple leaves and bearing the motto “Je me souviens” (I remember). The committees, under the name L’oeuvre du drapeau national, launched an intense promotion of this flag, called the Carillon-Sacré-Coeur. In two years 8,500 brochures, 15,000 post cards, 60,000 badges, 20,000 engravings, 150,000 buttons and signs and 76,500 flags of various sizes were sold. "  Source

"In 1903, the image of the Sacred Heart of Jesus above two wreaths of maple leaves in saltire, was placed in the centre of the white cross.
The Sacred Heart image derives from the devotions fo the heart of Jesus, initiated by the French visionary nun, St. Margaret Mary Alacoque. This Catholic practice had increased considerably by the 200th anniversary of her death in 1890." Source


Historical Recreation of a 15th Century Catholic Latin Mass

This video is an historical reconstruction of a Roman Rite mass as it would have been done October 4, 1450, 18th Sunday after Pentecost.

"Five hundred years ago, the universe seemed much more understandable than it does for us. All of existence was framed by a number of ceremonies and behavioral patterns which were a matter of course for people at the time. And the most important of them was the Holy Mass - that ring of charged words and actions which surround the central mystery in the Christian faith: That Jesus becomes man anew in the creatures of bread and wine.

We have reconstructed a High Mass from 500 years ago in an ordinary Swedish parish church, namely in Endre Church, one mile east of Visby in Gotland. We imagined ourselves to be participating in this high mass on an autumn Sunday in the middle of the 15th century. It is local people who are participating in clothes typical for the time, and we have tried as much as possible to reconstruct [something to do with (worship) services] in the Diocese of Linköping at that time - since Gotland belonged to that diocese.

The service is conducted in an incomprehensible language, a language incomprehensible to the people: Latin. Because church services at the time were not considered a medium for communicating information, except for silent prayers. Just as one cannot describe what is fascinating about a melody or a sight, one shouldn't be able to understand or describe the central mystery of the universe. The congregation waits for the central moment, when the bread and wine shall be transformed into the body and blood of Christ.

The priest was helped by a chorister, perhaps the [experienced?] youth whom [his soul has discovered?] and who with time would be sent to Linköping in order to attend the cathedral school. Songs, mostly from the Bible, were sung by the local cantor. We don't know exactly how the music went in the medieval churches. Maybe Endre Church had a specific order which required a qualified cantor like the one we shall see here.

The Sunday service began when the priest sprinkled Holy Water on the congregation. This was to remind them that they had become members of the Christian church through baptism. The Holy Water would drive away all the powers of evil.

Let us now place ourselves in the Middle Ages. Let us try to grasp the atmosphere in a normal Swedish parish church, in a time where man still believed himself cast out into an empty, cold existence, when Europe was still unified, and when the central mystery around which everything revolved was that Jesus Christ, had become man, had died, and risen again for all."


Is there no passion left in the people?

This video shows how the faithful French responded 33 years ago when they tried to take away the Traditional Latin Mass on Palm Sunday in 1987 (church of Port-Marly). 
In these days people are happy to stay home and watch on TV.  When do go to Church they assist at a Mass that has liturgical abuses.  There is no belief in the Real Presence as found in recent polls and is evident when you attend. If people really understood they would flock to Mass like they do for sports or concerts....

"Cérémonie des Rameaux 1987 devant l'église de Port-Marly, évacuée par la force de l'ordre quelques semaines avant et murée pour empêcher les paroissiens de vivre leur foi au rythme de la liturgie traditionnelle..."
I love the battering ram at about minute 24...
 People of faith indeed.

Article: https://www.nytimes.com/1987/04/26/world/a-french-parish-takes-to-barricades.html

The Majesty of the Traditional Latin Mass