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This homily was preached at the Martyr's Shrine in Midland by Fr. Peter Bisson, Provincial of the Jesuits in English Canada, on Saturday, September 22, 2012, for the Feast of the Canadian Martyrs. The actual feast was celebrated this past Wednesday.
Thee hundred and sixty
three years ago, here in this place, Christ did a new thing in North
America. Just as His own identity was fully revealed in His death and
resurrection, so too was His life made manifest here in the lives and
deaths of Sts. Jean de Brebeuf, Isaac Jogues, Gabriel Lalement, Noel
Chabanel, Antoine Daniel, Rene Goupil, Jean de LaLande, as well as in
the lives and commitments of their Huron and French companions. True
life and true human flourishing - which is to be a friend of God's -
is to be found only through the death that is to give yourself away
in love.
This is the message that
has attracted you here!
