Category Archives: WRITINGS

I have dealt at length with the adventures of Father Leonard on his recruitment campaign because it makes an interesting page of our Family history. The campaign concluded in March 1848 when Fr Tempier ran out of money to take … Continue reading →

Father Yvon Beaudoin takes up the narration on Father Leonard’s recruiting successes: “From 1841 to 1847 there were 115 men began the novitiate at Notre-Dame de l’Osier and a similar number in 1847 and 1848. Father Léonard’s preaching tour was … Continue reading →

Two months later, some of the Oblates began to put pressure on Eugene to curb Father Leonard’s recruitment campaign They were practical older Oblates who realized the impossibility of feeding, housing and educating a never-ending supply of new recruits. This … Continue reading →

Father Leonard’s vocational recruiting campaign was bringing in so many responses that a second novitiate eventually had to be opened in Nancy, with the possibility of a third in Belgium. As wonderful as all this was, it also led to … Continue reading →

After just a few months of his whirlwind tour to some of the diocesan seminaries, Father Leonard was already convincing several young men to sign up for religious life and the Oblate missions. Eugene wrote enthusiastically: Dear Father Leonard, what … Continue reading →

A few weeks after the arrival of Fr Leonard on his vocational recruitment drive in France, Eugene wrote to Fr Pierre Aubert in Oregon: Father Leonard was sent to Europe simply to make recruits. Your America is expanding so much … Continue reading →

Jean-Claude Léonard Baveux was born in France in 1796, and joined the Sulpicians and was ordained to the priesthood in 1828. He was sent to Canada  where he did parish work in Montreal and in the Iroquois Indian reserve of … Continue reading →

The daily reflection will pause until July 10, when1 we will begin to journey again with the writings of Saint Eugene. Our journey began on May 1, 2010 and in the subsequent 13 years, over 2900 entries have been published … Continue reading →

Saint Eugene wrote to all the members of his missionary family: The conclusion to be drawn from this, my dear friends and good brothers, is: we must work, with renewed ardour and still more total devotedness, to bring to God … Continue reading →

As we prepare to celebrate the feast of St Eugene on May 21, I invite you to reflect on what he means for you. Pope Paul VI said of him at the beatification “Eugene de Mazenod was a man passionately … Continue reading →