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LIFE IN AIX AS PERMANENT MISSION
Once the mission was over in Grans, Eugene and the missionaries returned to Aix in March 1816. Forty years later Eugene reminisces about the activities of our first community: [Fr. Tempier had remained in Aix during the mission in Grans] … Continue reading
PARISH MISSIONS EVALUATION: WHAT BEAUTIFUL DAYS THE CONCLUDING CEREMONIES OF MISSIONS ARE FOR A PASTOR!
Courtès, intimately involved with the Founder from the beginning, is quoted as saying nostalgically that the missions of their first times together as Missionaries were never surpassed. (H. Courtès, Mémoires, quoted in RAMBERT, Volume I, p. 228) It was the … Continue reading
PARISH MISSIONS: ENSURING ON-GOING STRUCTURES FOR AN ISSUE OF JUSTICE
The concern of the missionaries to prolong the effects of the mission in everyday life was shown in the committees set up to mediate on disputes caused by the acquisition of national property. Prior to the Revolution the majority of … Continue reading
PARISH MISSIONS: ERECTION OF THE MISSION CROSS
The ceremony was well prepared to be as spectacular as possible so as to appeal to the people and to ensure that this act of homage to Jesus the Saviour made an unforgettable impression on them. Those honoured to carry … Continue reading
PARISH MISSIONS: THE “CONVERSION” OF THE MAYOR
The Mayor of Marignane had been rather cold towards the Missionaries on their arrival. Yet he warmed to the mission as it progressed, and Eugene was able to note as the end of the mission approached: While we are on … Continue reading
PARISH MISSIONS: PREPARATIONS FOR THE CLOSURE OF THE MISSION
The mission ended with a ceremony in which a Cross was erected in a prominent place in the village as an on-going reminder of the mission – and as an incentive to prolong its effects. From the beginning of the … Continue reading
PARISH MISSIONS: CONFESSIONS – I REASSURED THIS GOOD MAN AND SENT HIM AWAY HAPPY
Forty one years later Eugene recounts an incident during the mission in Grans that gives an indication of the approach of the missionaries to people: A man who had been to me to confession and who, like all the others, … Continue reading
PARISH MISSIONS: EUGENE REMEMBERS SOME OF THE FRUITS OF THEIR FIRST MISSION
Reminiscing, some forty years later, Eugene recalls the first mission preached in Grans: If, in order not to leave anything out, I had to write an account of that first mission given in Grans I fear that I would diminish … Continue reading
PARISH MISSIONS: WE ARE IN THE CONFESSIONALS ALL THE TIME WE ARE NOT IN THE PULPIT OR AT THE ALTAR
Once the confessions began, the missionaries spent most of their time in the confessional. But the fact remains that we are in the confessionals all the time we are not in the pulpit or at the altar, we scarcely give … Continue reading
PARISH MISSIONS: THE MINISTRY OF THE WORD CANNOT BE SUBSTITUTED FOR THE SACRAMENT OF PENANCE
References to the numerous confessions are to be found in all the plentiful accounts of the missions. Eugene’s conviction as a mission preacher was that: The ministry of the Word cannot be substituted for the sacrament of penance instituted by … Continue reading