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OBLATION: CONSECRATION TO LIVE ONLY FOR GOD
My consistent thought has always been that our little family should consecrate itself to God and to the service of the Church through the vows of religion. Rambert, I p. 187 The heart of Eugene’s conversion journey, the culmination of … Continue reading
OBLATION: TO ENSURE A LOVING AUTHENTICITY OF LIFE AND MINISTRY
Hence I considered choosing the evangelical counsels, to which they had been so faithful, as indispensable, lest our words be no more than what I have often noticed about the words of those who proclaim the same truths, namely sounding … Continue reading
OBLATION: THE DEFINING MOMENT OF HOLY THURSDAY APRIL 11, 1816
The basic foundation stone of the existence of the Oblates, and of the whole Mazenodian family, had been laid on 25 January 1816, when the group came together formally to live as a community. Less than three months later, a … Continue reading
THE MISSIONARY: THE ALL OR NOTHING OF RELIGIOUS LIFE
The undersigned priests … -have the honour of requesting from you the authorization to come together at Aix in the old house of the Carmelites which one of them has acquired; and to live there in community under a Rule … Continue reading
FROM THE DEPTH OF HIS SOLITUDE, AND IN THE SILENCE OF THE NIGHT, HE WILL WATCH OVER THE MEMBERS OF THE YOUTH CONGREGATION
Brother Maur was a monk at a Trappist monastery near Paris. When Napoleon expelled the monks from their monastery in 1811, Brother Maur needed to earn a living and so was engaged by Eugene as a domestic first in Paris … Continue reading
I YEARN SOMETIMES FOR SOLITUDE
1814 had not only been the year of political change in France, it also was the year when Eugene had been on the point of death. His serious illness had left him weak, and in this letter he shows something … Continue reading