[Magdalen] Eucharistic prayer

Marion Thompson marionwhitevale at gmail.com
Tue Oct 22 16:29:24 UTC 2019


Colloquial, I guess.  Perfectly acceptable in Quebecois, just as 'for sure'
is in English.

Marion, a pilgrim

On Tue, Oct 22, 2019 at 10:51 AM Lynn Ronkainen <houstonklr at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Is "for sure" a French Canadian phrase as well??
> Lynn
>
> > On Oct 22, 2019, at 9:18 AM, Marion Thompson <marionwhitevale at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
>
> Made full sense to me as it stands.  For sure, bien sur.
>
> Marion, a pilgrim
>
> > On Mon, Oct 21, 2019 at 1:28 PM Allan Carr via Magdalen <
> > magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
> >
> > Well, Cajun is a corruption of Acadian. Acadia was the French speaking
> > area of Canada, now New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, from which the British
> > deported its people to what is now Louisiana  (or so I’ve been told).
> >
> > So when I met my wife, originally Camille Marie LeBlanc, a Cajun, I
> > welcomed her as a fellow Canadian.
> >
> > Bien sur.
> >
> > Allan Carr
> > (Who has a doctor’s appointment and didn’t have the time to look up the
> > proper u in sur.)
> >
> >>> On Oct 21, 2019, at 8:14 AM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Speaking of Canadian French, I am reminded of the days not that long
> ago
> >> (1980s maybe?) when the state of Louisiana decided it would be a good
> > thing
> >> to allow the Cajun kids in the schools to officially learn the language
> >> many of them spoke at home, or their grandparents spoke. They tried
> > French
> >> teachers from LSU and Tulane without much success because their French
> > was
> >> simply a "foreign language" to the kids, and finally had to import
> > teachers
> >> from Quebec and Ontario, whose French, being a version of the 18th
> >> century dialect spoken in the homes of the students, was much more
> >> familiar. Problem solved.
> >>
> >>> On Mon, Oct 21, 2019 at 10:28 AM cantor03--- via Magdalen <
> >>> magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> We should be careful that there are not too many references to "re-" as
> >>> concoctingsomething new.  The Communion Sacrament is a making present
> of
> >>> the one and onlySacrifice of Calvary.  This Liturgy is not renewing
> >>> anything.  (Martin Luther not withstanding).
> >>>
> >>> David S.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> In a message dated 10/21/2019 9:16:03 AM Eastern Standard Time,
> >>> simon at kershaw.org.uk writes:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> I too have heard this ("re-membering") suggested from the pulpit and
> > read
> >>> it elsewhere.
> >>>
> >>>
> >
> >
>


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