Memento Mori

The funerary marker of Rev. P.F. Cummins in the basement crypt of St. Michael's Cathedral.

REV. P. F. CUMMINS

DIED July 17, 1862.

AGED

26

YEARS.

Father died young. One summer day was his last day on this earth. 

Memento mori.

St. Michael's Restoration Fund

A sign reminding parishioners of the St. Michael's Cathedral Restoration Fund.

As a protestant I was always impressed with the dignity and beauty of Catholic Cathedrals.  So I’m not too proud to beg: for love of souls give something to the St. Michael’s Cathedral Restoration Fund. 

Love the Church

Next to the front doors of St. Michael's Cathedral.

We must love the Church and desire her to be as Christ planned and instituted her…We shall never err by idealizing, with our love, the Church of Christ!  We should love her also for her shortcomings and her needs. Are we not ourselves, as members of this human and mystical body, involved in her present conditions? Would not the Church be more worthy and more alive if we all loved her more? We should love her today more than ever before… We should love her as Christ loved her by giving His life for her. 

                                          – Pope Paul VI

The Holy Trinity: The Essence of Our Catholic Faith

Crest in honour of the Holy Trinity hangs in St. John's Chapel (attached to St. Michael's Cathedral).

Fides autem catholica haec est: ut unum Deum in Trinitate, et Trinitatem in unitate veneremur. Neque confundentes personas, neque substantiam seperantes…Ita Deus Pater, Deus Filius, Deus [et] Spiritus Sanctus. Et tamen non tres dii, sed unus est Deus.  – The Athanasian Creed

Want to see the mystery of the Holy Trinity a bit more clearly? Stand on the shoulders of Saints Augustine and Boethius.

Remember Your Prelates

In the Narthex

No man is deader than a dead priest. 

His celibacy means that when he dies he leaves behind no wife or children.  No grandchildren will remember him.  In his retirement he loses touch with the parishioners he once served (who now have a new priest to think of) and if he was a prelate his authority may have separated him a little even from his fellow priests.

Remember Your Prelates Who Have Spoken the Word of God Unto You.

Canadian Martyrs

In the nave, back, epistle side

The Canadian Martyrs shed blood, sweat, and tears for the conversion of New France.  

It is thus very depressing to consider the state of aggressive secularism into which much of Quebec has fallen in recent decades.  May the blood of these martyrs be the seed of the Church in Canada.

St. Jean de Brébeuf, St. Isaac Jogues, St. Gabriel Lalemant, St. Antoine Daniel, St. Charles Garnier, St. Noël Chabanel, St. René Goupil, St. Jean de Lalande...

                          priez pour nous.   

Religious and Historical Patrimony

Every community therefore has the duty to take special care of its own sacred buildings, which are a precious religious and historical patrimony.
                  - Pope Benedict XVI, 9 November, 2008


Don't deny your children their patrimony.  Give to the St. Michael's Cathedral Restoration Fund.