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ESTABLISHING THE MISSIONARIES AT THE CALVAIRE HOUSE
Continuing to tell the story of our third Oblate foundation, we see that the number of people coming to the Calvaire increased rapidly. The Missionaries found themselves ministering to regular parish groups coming on pilgrimage over and above the regular … Continue reading
THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE SHRINE OF CHRIST THE SAVIOR
Because the Calvaire in Marseille was a shrine with its central focus on the Crucified Savior, the lay people who associated themselves with it placed themselves under the protection of Our Lady of Sorrows – with the scapular as a distinctive … Continue reading
YOUTH MINISTRY IN MARSEILLE
The following Sunday, May 13, a second installation took place at the Providence orphanage where living quarters were set up for the community. Leflon Volume 2, p. 182-183 The establishment in Marseille followed the exact pattern of the permanent mission … Continue reading
AN INVITATION TO TRANSFORMATION UNDER THE SIGN OF THE CROSS
Marius Suzanne described the ceremony thru which the Missionaries began what was to be an Oblate ministry that lasted for 161 years. The Calvaire became a place of permanent mission to the people of Marseille, continuing the evangelization that had … Continue reading
ACCEPTING TO SERVE THE NEEDS OF THE PILGRIM POOR
Some background information on this new mission in Marseille: With the official, and laboriously written letter in his possession, Father de Mazenod left that same day with Brother Suzanne, followed closely after by Fathers Maunier and Moreau, since the installation … Continue reading
A DOSE OF REALISM
Having agreed to send some of his Missionaries to Marseille to do youth ministry with the orphans, Eugene was surprised when the Archbishop began to insist that they also had to take over the responsibility for the ministry of the … Continue reading
THE HILL OF CALVARY IN MARSEILLE
The fury of the French Revolution had destroyed the magnificent Gothic Church of Notre Dame des Accoules in 1794 which had served the people of Marseille since 1205 (and as a parish from the 10th century). All that remained standing … Continue reading
NON-CLERICAL CLOTHING
Writing to Henri Tempier, who was the one responsible for the formation of the novices at Laus, Eugene speaks about the dress of the Missionaries. The gesture of receiving the cassock (soutane) marked the official beginning of the novitiate period. … Continue reading
CELEBRATING GOD IN THE STREETS
The second major manifestation was the closing of the mission in Marseille with the procession and the erection of the commemorative Cross of the mission. Bearing in mind that less than 30 years before, the city of Marseille had been … Continue reading
THE BE-ATTITUDES: BECOME THE SYMBOL
The cross of Jesus Christ is central to our mission… This is the focal point of the spirit of Eugene, handed on to the Mazenodian family today. Through the eyes of our crucified Saviour we see the world which he … Continue reading