Lurette La Belle (1935) Quotes Henry Calet
Turning to rev 
ue my memories of St-Jovite, I had the idea to go swimming with little brother jase Jean-Luc Brissette who taught there from 1941 to 1946. So I stop in Ste-Agathe where he lives with three brothers: the brother Jean-Noel Marcoux , 94 years, second in order of seniority of Canadian brothers, who taught for fifty-three years Sacred Heart College in Ste-Agathe brother Lucien Desrosiers, director, the youngest of the group, who has taught thirty years at the College; brother Gilles Lafontaine, a native of Ste-Agathe, there is income after spending more Much of his teaching career in Côte d'Ivoire in Africa.
Since they left their residence at the College, the brothers are in a simple house on rue Nantel, in front of Lac des Sables.
Sainte-Agathe received his first Brothers of the Sacred Heart in 1903, a year after Saint-Jovite. It will be the last parish north of Montreal to host them. Within two years, in fact, the residence of Ste-Agathe will also be closed.
Brother Briss 
ette remained there for twenty-three years. At ninety-two years, he is the fifteenth oldest brother Sacred Heart's only province in Canada. Still alert as a young man, he greets me with great cordiality. Some watches are always found on his desk. This practice still in effect, as a hobby, the craft of jewelry in addition to several of his other titles.
Brother Jean-Luc was prepared for me a few numbers of Yearbooks of the Institute, who compiled the list of denominations in the province of Montreal during my years in the North. (1951-58) 
He tells me the story of Msgr. Mercury. A clergyman (still in seminary) who, in connivance with some priests from the Diocese of St. Hyacinthe in conflict with their bishop, left his diocese to join the Mont-Laurier. In 1932, Father Rudolph Mercury was named pastor of St. Jovite, the fourth since the founding of the parish in 1879. He will assume this cure until his retirement in 1967.
The first Brothers of the Sacred Heart arrived in St-Jovite in 1902. There were three French brothers ais. After a year or two, they were recalled by their provincial superior, Theodule brother, because their housing was unsafe, "not suitable", reviews say. Three brothers
Quebec opened a new school at St Jovite in 1931, Maxim brother, my brother, Master at the school, was its first director. Brother Jean-Luc came here in January 1941. In March of that year, the school burns down due to the negligence of a smoker who was attending a meeting of the City Council.
Classes have resumed in makeshift premises a few days after the fire. Ildéric brother and his 43 students held a funeral while another class was housed in an old stable which was also used to shoe horses. The class's brother Jean-Luc ended the year in a local IPC. The brothers were temporarily housed at the rectory had over sixteen plays.
Brother Brissette end storyteller, tells me a few stories that show how tasty St-Jovite, the Brothers were well integrated into parish life.
The persuasions of August 15, 1951 catapult me to St. Jovite. I will have the burden of 
the 7th year, the sports and the JEC. The staff consists of six brothers: brother Louis Adelard eds. Roussin which comes from the College and will take charge the 8th and 9th years and the choir. Brother Ronald, my group arrived novitiate of Gracefield. It will hold the sixth year and will lead the 4-H club. Brother Jean-Bernard High School has, he will hold the fourth year and will take charge of the Eucharistic Crusade. Brother Arthur, who is in his second year at St-Jovite, will hold the 2nd year and assistant athletics.
Brother Olivain since 1942 is the pillar of St. Jovite. He teaches students in Grade 5, is director of choirboys and host of the Association he founded several years ago. The welcome we have done is warm, the site is enchanting, residence, adjoining the school is cute, and the fame of the brothers of the most enviable. Another paradise full of promise.
the third year, the brothers Jean-Bernard, Arthur and Louis Adelard will be replaced by brothers Gaston, director, and Pierre Romain. Brother Ronald community remains the only survivor of nine brothers who taught at St-Jovite during those three years. Olivain brothers and Gaston died in the community and others returned to secular life, giving a retention rate of 33.3%. Total Immersion
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e second nature. I was comfortable and my class was buzzing like a hive of activity well-organized. The children were well-attended parents that we met twice a year. Supreme comfort during my three years at St-Jovite, I drove the three young Juvénat Granby and two for Chertsey. Two of them walked up to the vows. Everything went smoothly
school. This is especially through their involvement in extracurricular activities or parish that the brothers made their mark in St-Jovite. The extracurricular
Make two pairs of skate sharpening for five pennies
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the residence offered a free space. It was quickly converted into a workshop with the brother Ronald and me. A bench top two-seater school becomes the table of the saw and the support for the skate sharpener. Novelty of the hour, from Sears, a wheel that rotates horizontally. The skates are sharpened in the direction of the blade and not vertically like this was done at school and everywhere Best. Sharpening a lot softer and more uniform as among professionals.
were asked five pennies pair. A bargain price! And for the children of one family, five cents for two pairs and ten cents for three. Even girls of the convent came to sharpen their skates at home. In three years, we certainly have to recoup the costs of the grinding wheel and the accompanying media and probably also that of the table saw.
Corners rounded Ice
was the tradition. Each fall, the brothers rode the bands of p 
atinoire. Forget the closed timber & Son [1] provided wood, ironwork Emile Best provided the hardware and the last Saturday of October, with the help of the older school and some Alumni friendly repairing the bands and brackets, we paint, we installed the poles and fixtures. Everything had to be ready before the first frost.
Usually every corner of the rink was closed by a band set at 45o degrees. Brother Ronald in clever and experienced handyman, rounded corners as imagined in the Forum. Eight angle irons, one side was sawn at every inch and a half and the other side attached by screws to the vertical boards of the band. Some piles driven into the ground and this band became rounded quadrant. He had to think and do. However, storing the bands that took the form of a cradle was a bit inconvenient.
was also constructed as the players' benches and doors that opened to the outside of the rink. Real pros. We wove the threads of the same hockey goals.
Going capable of anything
was one of the rules proposed to the brothers living in the Rules and Constitutions, old version. I had noted in my life plan. How many things we do in St-Jovite!
In the fall of 1952, there was a school that met conventum friendlies provinces Granby and Montreal. The choir of Granby, led by the brother Julian, was to give a concert. To receive them properly, we had to redo the front of the theater. I see myself with Mr. Alcide Forget a significant way to retirement, who came to school in Cadillac to help me take the wood and panels required to cover the walls. Brother Ronald and I were novices in this business. This was "not bad"! as we said then. Well enough to earn us praise from the gallery.
Each year, the Association of St-Jovite also rode a play they would play in the surrounding parishes. It was moving behind the scenes. Brother Ronald built the six panels that included the setting and covered them with cotton cloth on which I painted a landscape of rustic summer.
In the second year of my presence in St-Jovite, the Association had with a ski lift which was provided by a cable such as that manufactured my father Lucian. The cable was coated with rosin to ensure a better grip. He was held in both hands and, in mild weather, it was dripping all over dirt stains gray robes of our 'flying dresses " [2] . He was baptized this +de+St-Jovite+002.jpg)
between c and draw a billboard. I spotted a postcard drawing of a penguin skiing, easier to paint a beaver, a panel of eight feet. St-Jovite Mont-announced his Penguin at the same time and with as much pride as Ste-Agathe attracted clients with its Mount Castor. I felt great pride, although still somewhat lower than that afforded me the novitiate, my first painting on Christmas alabastine.
Gardening
us Our housekeeper was entirely devoted. She treated us like his children. She cooked us excellent meals surprise, and even guessed that it tastes liked to meet. At Christmas, she made each of the gifts that testified to his good taste and especially his great generosity.
Subsequently, the Director-brother often went with her to maintain this garden, which gave us a good supply of potatoes, tomatoes, carrots and peas that we have preserved. It was thus easy as pie, my mother would say. Nobody was passing remarks. Time of innocence as before in the first garden between the Tigris and Euphrates.
Club 4-H
Brother Ronald inherited the 4-H Club . With the club, had his spiritual father, Mr. Fortier, appointed by the IPC improve
nagement forest in the region. And with Mr. Fortier, a bonus, there was also its "pick up" that was used to transport club members and all the rigging necessary for their activities in forests and often also to meet certain transportation needs of the community . In that time, only the provincial brother had his car with driver. Every Saturday or nearly twenty young arrived at school and off again to spend the day in the forest. The 4-H club was the pride of St-Jovite, more even than the JEC, which itself had the blessings of the clergy. The four "H" correspond to the four virtues that club members pledged to observe at all times: HONOR in the acts, means honesty, skill in work and in the conduct HUMANITY.
Under the recommendation of Bishop. Mercury, the 4-H Club of St-Jovite was founded in 1942 by none other than the brother Jean-Luc, guide my memories in St-Jovite.
SEE-JUDGE-ACT. What a wonderful program of human and Christian education. All religious leaders warmly recommended the formation of teams JEC. 
There were in all schools. I was in charge at St-Jovite. This was the solution that the Church had found to defeat the communist worker cells. Wonderful discovery which, together with many other factors have contributed to the transformation of thought and the presence of the Church which marked the end of the twentieth century in Quebec and throughout the Western world.
However, in 1950, in a school primary or preached submission to God and authority, self-effacement and sacrifice, the importance of religious practices hello effects automatically, the slogan of the Catholic Action trumpet sounded as in an assembly the deaf.
themes and programs of activities that we proposed plant were abstractions, shoveling cloud. Moreover, it was launched in the heat of the Catholic Action without any preparation. There were a few meetings during the holidays than a day or two of training for JEC. I remember Gerard Pelletier, who came one afternoon the camp of Christian Brothers in Val-Morin, shirtsleeves reported, the allure and the language of false labor, we talk about Catholic Action, that we implanted in the academic or workman. I never had the feeling of having fired many benefits of these training meetings between communities. Assemblies of Chinese seeking to be taught a culture that no one really knows.
Initiate youth of thirteen years from the 50s to the Catholic Action was like trying to teach them to swim against the tide. The slogans and programs that incited transform the environment, to act on similar to release stress, to think for yourself I have always appeared in door-to-false if not in opposition to education, which was then given to these kids.
We had good casting molds in our conformist the program suggested by the middle of the JEC. We acted without seeing, instead of judging, we repeated our judgments of others and act within the scope of good habits to acquire. Under the name of Catholic Action, were served our good old soup, seasoned with our traditional values.
During the week of the JEC, the school was decked CATHOLIC ACTION and schedule a little upset by the activities proposed by the Central Office. Thus, after recess Friday afternoon, there was no class. Each class had prepared a play or a skit by Reginald Boisvert suggested in the books of Catholic Action. It was nice and fun. Students who held the plays in the role of bizarre characters and symbolic or who faced the public to explain the slogans of the hour earned plumb and emotions. As for real action on the middle, similar to the similar it will take a little longer.
I also remember going to Mont-Laurier jécistes a meeting of representatives of each school. A parade of good feelings and reports of more or less bogus. We applauded the reports were glowing, it was a good figure, all-the-world gave pats on the back, pretending to be happy. It was certainly better than living in the interior walls of his school, its parochialism. But that door-to-fake!
Testimonials
I've never been also revered as brother during my stay in St-Jovite. Between Christmas and New Year's Day, PL Olivain great friend's brother brought us faithfully with his wishes, a crate of beer he was carrying on a train-sauvage. There were also, each with its pitch and its brands of attention, the President of the school board together with any commission 
area; O. Boivin village mayor and E. Paquette, mayor of the parish, the Grand Knight and the president of the Société St-Jean-Baptiste.
In the fall, we were invited to join various groups of many hunters in the region. The slopes of Mount Gray Rocks we were open for free, and the ski lifts that serve them.
The Knights of Columbus mobilized our school for their annual initiation. They then pay us a trip to Mont Tremblant or St. Agatha.
The President of the Société St-Jean-Baptiste counted on us to write him a speech he read with difficulty when the fire of St. John.
One year, I had prepared for him that was a reminder of the epic moments in our history. Taken with a fever, I could not attend the fire of St. John. Maybe had I found a trick to hide my shame? Let me explain. A few weeks before St John, the arrival of spring has inspired the parish priest to do us the pulpit denunciation to the punch of pornographic magazines that corrupted our youth. Savonarola young, I fed the plan to organize, during the fire of St. John, a book burning that would result from this evil. The President agreed, and it seemed to me too, the brothers of the community. I organized the school system a powerful collection of journals 'pornographic' which 'poisoned' homes in St-Jovite. What have we collected do you think? Spurred by an appropriate emulation system, the children brought piles of magazines, all glossy magazines for hunting, fishing, National Geographic, golf, old catalogs or Eaton Dupuis Frères, etc.. but I saw nothing pornographic.
I quickly realized my mistake and was ashamed of my innocence. But it was too late to retreat. The fever has arranged everything. Without stress, we left the magazines pile up. They used to light the fire of St. John, covering my shame from the ashes.
1952 - Perpetual Profession
In July 1952 after 21 days at the College Retirement Roussin, with twenty-six of my colleagues I pronounced the vows which induced me to life in the community of Brothers of the Sacred Heart.
I like the atmosphere in a gravity-retirement, a time a little slow when it is like a mirror in the presence of self, wrapped in a cocoon carrier that can be called both silence, divine peace. Prayers, four lectures per day, the long moments of reading, pacing in nature take time to smell the wind, hear the voices of normal weigh the various colors of atmospheres to suit his own feelings, play the Medusa before the wave of a red sun is setting, make retirement a time of renewal intravenously to recharge our batteries of immeasurable spiritual energy.
On top of a healing intense, all commitments and all expectations are taken for granted and engage in donation total immersion without constraint in all the mysteries that surround us. It is with full confidence and resolutions that returns to a normal life when one smiles in agreement, where one must walk in an interaction network and hope in the face of doubts still increasingly persistent weaknesses still humiliating.
Finally my life of union with God came down to which exercises self-discipline fed some feeling of personal pride probably very far from the true Christian attitude. My spiritual director, while insisting on the virtue of humility that nourishes rather an attitude of simple abandonment to divine love, acknowledged that a certain asceticism helped quell the libido and paved the way for a genuine relationship God. What happened very rarely.
following two years of grace time repeating their regular carousel turns me back to the fire of St. John, who posed an end to the school year.
Without my knowledge or that I doubt even the fires of St. Jean 1954 put an end to my presence in this population so warm, leaving the school walls, on grass his playground, his winters with snow drifts and smells of spring spruce her care to keep the memory of those times of life and tell the tourists from overseas and the descendants of modern times.
[2] Flying dresses: title had given an American journalist in an article he wrote about the brothers who were skiing in Ste-Agathe cassock.
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