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CARDINAL PAUL-EMILE LÉGER (1904-1991)
By Bernard Bujold -
Paul-Émile Léger died on 13 November 1991 and to commemorate the 25th anniversary of his death, a special ceremony was celebrated on this date in 2016 at the Marie Reine du Monde Cathedral.
I am not a Catholic practitioner but I have several friends who are; and I love visiting the churches that I consider to be buildings worthy of the best museums in the world with exceptional works of art.
I therefore accepted the invitation to attend the ceremony in honor of Cardinal Léger.
If I have never met Cardinal Leger in person, but I had the pleasure of being invited to dinner by Jules Léger, the Cardinal's brother. A memorable souvenir... I was then a young journalist and Mr. Léger was the Governor General of Canada.
Cardinal Léger was a man of the Quebec Church who was nicknamed "The Prince of the Church". He was Archbishop of Montreal from 1950 to 1967 and Cardinal.
He was noticed by Montrealers as the host of the religious radio show Chapelet en famille.
Cardinal Paul-Émile Léger was one of the leaders of the Second Vatican Council from 1962 to 1965.
He resigned from his position as Archbishop of Montreal on April 20, 1968 to work as a missionary in Africa, specifically in Cameroon among lepers and children with disabilities.
Ten years later, in 1978, he participated in the conclave which elected Pope John Paul II. A month later, following the death of the pope, he found himself again in the conclave which elected John Paul II. From 2 May 1989 until his death in 1991, he was the living cardinal with the longest reign.
Paul-Émile Léger died of pneumonia at the Hôtel-Dieu in Montreal in 1991 in Quebec at the age of 87 years. His funeral service was celebrated by Mgr Jean-Claude Turcotte.
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LEONARD COHEN (1934-2016)
By Bernard Bujold-
This line from Leonard is how I will remember him:
“There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in.”
Leonard Cohen
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THE VICTORY OF DONALD TRUMP -
By Bernard Bujold -
I was confident that Donald Trump would win the Presidency of United States since June 2015, and I was writing about it on my Facebook page since then.
I am a very happy man about the victory of Donald Trump as it is also the victory of the Positive thinking philosophy, a philosophy in which I am a firm believer since my teenage days.
The basic of the Positive thinking philosophy is simple: "If you could think it, you could also do it. "
All my personal life has been lived according to the Positive thinking philosophy.
This philosophy was inspired during the 1950 by the lates Dale Carnegie, Norman Vincent Peale, Napoleon Hill, Robert H. Schuller and, after them, by all those business leaders from Ray Crock (McDonald) to Steve Jobs (Apple), Frank Stronach (Magna International), Paul Desmarais (Power Corporation) or Pierre Peladeau (Quebecor); as well as by many others.
I started observing Donald Trump in the late 1970 as a young journalist and if we share both this same philosophy of Positive thinking, we also share many other ideas about life and about our society.
Donald Trump's victory as the new President of the United States will be a source of new inspiration to the whole world: "You could change things and yes it is possible to achieve one vision."
In Donald Trump own words: " Since you will be thinking anyway, so why not thinking big and about winning?"
On a personal level, Donald Trump remember me of two close mentor and friend that I had in my life.
The first is Brian Mulroney and his electoral campaign in 1984 was similar in momentum to the one of Donald in 2016.
The second mentor and friend was Pierre Péladeau and I consider Donald Trump to be a very similar individual with both a very generous human soul.
Long live the new President of the United States: DONALD J. TRUMP!
I am very proud to be a fan and a believer in Donald Trump, since the beginning.
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