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Category Archives: LETTERS
STRUGGLING FOR HARMONY IN THE COMMUNION OF SAINTS
Let us rejoice then mutually over all the good done by our brethren in the four quarters of the world. With us, it is wholly a question of solidarity. Each works for all and all for each. Oh! how beautiful, … Continue reading
THE TALENT FOR BEING CLOSE TO THE POOREST OF THE CITY
Marseille was a large city with a varied population, for whom different missionary methods were needed. Leflon describes the differences between the Missionaries of France and the Missionaries of Provence in approach to the 1820 city mission: Now, in order … Continue reading
A PREFERENTIAL OPTION FOR THE POOR
The first months of the year 1820 were taken up with two important missions to the cities of Marseille and Aix en Provence. Together with the group of the Missionaries of France they were to work at the renewal of … Continue reading
BEING FORMED AS MISSIONARIES IN THE MYSTERY OF THE SAVIOR
Coincidentally, as I reflect on today’s text, I am in Paris and have spent the morning in the footsteps of Saint Eugene as a seminarian. The Seminary of St. Sulpice is no longer there, but the famous church is. It … Continue reading
WHERE DID THE MONEY COME FROM?
I am often asked, “In the first years of their existence where did the money for the livelihood of the Missionaries come from?” This letter to the new Archbishop of Aix gives an idea of the situation at the end … Continue reading
RETELLING THE STORY OF OUR BEGINNINGS
A month after the installation of the new Archbishop of Aix, in 1819, Eugene wrote to him. He gave him an introduction to the history of the foundation of the Missionaries, stressing that their reason for existence was the evangelization … Continue reading
A MISSIONARY EVALUATION
I am sorry, without doubt, my dear brother, that you have so little consolation at Rognac but as I am certain that your merit in the eyes of God is only the greater for that, I cannot feel too bad … Continue reading
LOOKING FOR OPPORTUNITIES WHILE SURROUNDED BY DIFFICULTIES
The early biographer, Rey, had this to say of the mission in Rognac: “it was plagued by bad weather, the rain continued for almost the entire time of the religious exercises. No one was waiting for the missionaries, the mission … Continue reading
IN SOLIDARITY WITH THE POOR
Henri Tempier wrote from the difficult mission of Rognac: We got here on Saturday night… and after two or three calls, we returned to our lodging, where we found nothing. We had to run all around to find three bad … Continue reading
WHEN THINGS DO NOT GO ACCORDING TO PLAN
One of the conditions of the Missionaries taking on the shrine of ND du Laus as a permanent mission was that when the cold weather put an end to the pilgrimages, the Missionaries would spend the winter months preaching parish … Continue reading