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SALT GIVES TASTE BUT ALSO IRRITATES
Not all smelt of roses in the Aix mission of 1820. From time to time, in past entries, we have come across entries on the stormy relationship between Eugene and some of the priests of the city. His fiery reactions … Continue reading
THE DANGER OF BRINGING CHRIST OUT OF THE CHURCH BUILDING
Not everyone was happy with the effects of the preaching of the Missionaries. Rey narrates this episode during the 1820 mission in Aix: Now, after this moving scene, there passed another one which showed how the heavens watched over their … Continue reading
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
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
DISTURBING THE COUNTRYSIDE WITH THE WORD OF GOD
The mayor, assistants, judges, notaries, lawyers, businessmen, manufacturers, middle class people, everyone is moving, each trying to outdo the others. Letter to Fortuné de Mazenod, 22 November 1818, O.W. XIII n.20 Despite what Eugene wrote about the positive reaction of these … Continue reading
NEVER ABANDONING THE SALVATION OF THOSE WHOM JESUS CHRIST REDEEMED WITH HIS BLOOD
Reviewing the Diary of the Youth Congregation, Eugene wrote about the 28 month gap in keeping the diary up to date. I assigned a congregant to make a note of the principal events so that at the first free moment … Continue reading
I MUST BE ON GUARD AGAINST MY NATURAL LIVELINESS
Part of the tiredness of Eugene to which he refers in his 1818 retreat was caused by his strong personality which led him to react heatedly in some situations , in particular where people were treated unjustly or a hurt … Continue reading