Monthly Archives: October 2017

I WOULD HAVE BEGGED GOD TO LET ME DROWN IN A LUKEWARM BATH AS A PUNISHMENT FOR SUCH COWARDICE.

The community meeting had been successful, except for one member. Only Father Martin, who has no more courage than he has common sense, finds it difficult to reconcile the work that he has been given and the regularity that I … Continue reading

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A METHOD FOR HANDLING DIVISION IN A COMMUNITY

The Oblate community in Marseilles seemed to have lost its sense of direction and the impression that Eugene gives is that everyone was too frightened to face the issues. I have spent two days at Calvaire in spite of receiving … Continue reading

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I AM YOUR FATHER AND HOW MUCH A FATHER!

You know them, I am your father and how much a father! So, I cannot be satisfied to be treated simply as a superior. From the day that Eugene had founded the Oblates, he had had a sense of spiritual … Continue reading

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HOW HAPPY I WOULD BE TO LIVE IT NOW WITH YOU!

Eugene continues to reminisce about the first day of community life of the Oblates, as he writes to the young scholastics. The table that adorned our refectory was one plank laid alongside another, on top of two old barrels. We … Continue reading

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TOMORROW I CELEBRATE THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE DAY, SIXTEEN YEARS AGO, I LEFT MY MOTHER’S HOUSE TO GO AND SET UP HOUSE AT THE MISSION

In the midst of religious persecution and all the disappointments and losses that Eugene had experienced for two years, he recalls one of the most important events of our Oblate life. It was the day when the Oblate adventure began … Continue reading

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THE RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION IS STILL RAGING

Eugene had finally returned to Marseilles, where he could experience at first-hand the anti-religious attitude of the authorities. He remained calm, confident that Gd would never abandon the Church or him”and to adore God and his ways even when I … Continue reading

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TO ADORE GOD AND HIS WAYS EVEN WHEN I FIND THEM VERY HARD

Eugene had been staying in Nice, in the hope of being granted permission to open Oblate missions in the Kingdom of Sardinia. The negative answer eventually came, and he now prepared to return to Marseilles. … The plans I spoke … Continue reading

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HIS NOBLE CONVICTIONS EVOKE MY ADMIRATION

Jean Baptiste Honorat had been superior of the house in Nimes, but the events after the 1830 Revolution had forced te closure of the house and the departure of the community. The governnet was not allowing the preaching of parish … Continue reading

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I ADORE HIM AS HE SIGHS AND WEEPS OUTSIDE LAZARUS’S TOMB

It had been a difficult period for Eugene, and now an Oblate he loved and admired, Fr. Capmas, dying a painful death. Eugene reveals his grief and criticizs those who pretend not to have the need to express their grief: … Continue reading

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PRAY TO GOD FOR ME, FOR THE GRACE TO ACCEPT THE DESIGNS OF DIVINE PROVIDENCE WITH PERFECT RESIGNATION

My worst fears have been realized. It is with sorrow that I inform you that the Lord has called our dear Father Capmas to himself … after a long and painful agony. I am told that although unable to make … Continue reading

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