The Petit Séminaire de Québec

I will admit that it is a unique view that an old and once venerated Roman Catholic Chapel being being deconsecrated and now used as a performance venue and a meeting hall as well as Quebec itself, the once most Catholic of provinces (I think), having the lowest birth rate today in all of Canada is evidence of the happy circumstances that the Old World and the New World freely coexisting.

Methinks it sounds as if the Catholics have abandoned their posts…

Indeed, Mrs. P. A view so unique that no one holds it.

Really. You might want to check your ideas with the Vatican. Quebec, once gloriously Catholic as you explain, now has the lowest birth rates in all of Canada and allows same sex marriage. Not civil unions but marriage. Marriage, a sacrament in the Catholic Church.

But I guess you are right. Because the empty Catholic buildings are kept up well, the Catholics in Quebec have done a fine job of holding down the fort. My bad.

Wow Mrs. P, good job at taking some words directed at architecture and attributing non-existing conclusions to them!

But perhaps you could point out where I was praising low birth rates and same-sex “marriage”?

I think you’d be hard pressed to prove the Vatican objects to having the best of traditional architecture from the Old World and the New World intermingling, but hey, I’d be willing to hear you giving it a shot.

Andrew;

It appears that you had a splendid time in La Belle Provence! It is nice to see that our Canadian history is appreciated for what it is. I find I am always enriched with a wonderful appreciation of the Catholic culture and traditions so unmistakably prevalent in Montreal or Quebec City. In particular I enjoy visits to Cathédrale Marie-Reine-du-Monde which is of course as you know a scale replica of St. Peter’s Basilica, but is also the official Chapel for the Canadian Association of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta.
Did the weather hold out for you to explore? We on the East Coast of Canada were not so fortunate this week as Hurricane Kyle pounded many parts of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia.

Cheers.

I think I see Mrs. P’s point, or at least I think I understand her upset.

If you really want a cracker, there is nothing so frustrating and painful as an empty cracker box; it cannot satisfy, no matter how nice the crackers look on the outside of the box. Indeed, one might begin to think that it would be better to throw away the cracker box, lest he be tempted to despair.

I’d rather live in a city full of ugly churches that are well attended than have my heart broken on the daily living in Quebec.

Dear other commentators –
If you feel that the faith has fallen so far in Quebec than perhaps you should pray for a revival there. Lord knows, every inch of our beloved country needs one but if Quebec falls in the faith we all so. So pray for that city and that province. As a good sign, the Cardinal has reopened the petit seminary for the training of young men towards the Priesthood and it filled up within only two months. Pray that this type of thing continues. Also if you would rather spend time in a lively catholic city with ugly churches then perhaps you should make the move to this beautiful corner of the world and help to reignite the faith there.
If you are already living there and working toward that goal or on your knees so that the people there might be brought back then kudos to you…. if not… you should pray for the people that are there.
Sincerely Sean Wilson