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“A father’s communication with his many children… that is one of the most agreeable occupations of my life” 1857
What an incredibly humbling thought that we too might have the faith and heart to announce the Word of God like Mary did. Mary’s fiat: “let it be done unto me according to your word.” How often in this chaotic world do we stop and silently respond to God with our own version of Mary’s Fiat?
It helps sometimes to refresh our memories of the founding community when they are reintroduced to us in our morning reflections. Today I did that very thing: I looked up Fr. Mie in the Oblate History section of OMIWorld.org. Like Eugene he suffered with the French Revolution and in contrast to Eugene’s passionate being we meet him as a quiet and humble man who lived out his oblation, lovingly serving his brother Oblates and all those he met.
“Father Balthasar Paris, a professor at the major seminary (in Marseilles), had chosen him for his spiritual director and wrote the following in 1831: “As for my interior life… the fine hand of Father Mie has healed more wounds in six months than the most skilled spiritual physician could have done in a hundred years. Experience is teaching me – and I shall learn from this for the benefit of others – that kindness and advice marked by candor are means a thousand times more powerful than the oft ridiculous solutions of all these great theologians who have never felt nor experienced the things they write.”
Fr. Mie is like a symbol of hope to both the members of the Oblate congregation along with the members of their charismatic family.
This is what we might also consider to be a part of our “Formation”. In community none learn by being controlled or lessened. Mary invites us to stand with her at the foot of the Cross, so that we too learn a new way of being and teach it by our own example to all who we would meet.