{"id":1475,"date":"2012-05-31T05:00:54","date_gmt":"2012-05-31T03:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=1475"},"modified":"2012-05-28T19:05:05","modified_gmt":"2012-05-28T17:05:05","slug":"disturbing-the-countryside-with-the-word-of-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=1475","title":{"rendered":"DISTURBING THE COUNTRYSIDE WITH THE WORD OF GOD"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The mayor, assistants, judges, notaries, lawyers, businessmen, manufacturers, middle class people, everyone is moving, each trying to outdo the others.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Letter to Fortun\u00e9 de Mazenod, 22 November 1818, O.W. XIII n.20<\/em><\/p>\n

Despite what Eugene wrote about the\u00a0positive reaction of these civil authorities, not all the\u00a0authorities were in favor of the attitudes and activities of the Missionaries. The major opposition came from M. Chevalier, the Prefect of the Var Department in which Barjols was situated. He accused the Missionaries of causing unacceptable disturbances to M. Laine, the Minister of the Interior, in Paris.<\/p>\n

Leflon recounts:<\/p>\n

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Consequently, on December 23, three days before the fall of the Richelieu ministry, Laine ordered the mission to be closed and Father de Mazenod and his confreres, who were accused of disturbing the countryside, to be reported to the king’s procurator. Legal proceedings were immediately instituted \u2026 However, nothing more was done beyond this point. Whether it was because Chevalier feared the resentment of the people of Barjols, who were warmly devoted to Father de Mazenod and his colleagues, or because he wanted to spare the Home Ministry from being forced into excessively stern measures, at any rate he had become deeply disturbed by the proportions which this affair had assumed and wrote \u2026 on January 9, 1819, that, “as long as the missionaries had departed, he was content to see his Department rid of their presence without the need of resorting to any harsh measures which might have been very difficult to carry out.”<\/h5>\n
Thus, no legal action was taken. The whole affair came to an end on February 4, with a strongly-worded letter from Guigou [ed. Vicar General of Aix], who accused Chevalier of having presented an inaccurate account of what had taken place, and upheld the right to preach the Word of God.<\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Leflon Volume 2, Chapter 4.<\/em><\/p>\n

They will hand you over to the local councils and flog you in their synagogues.\u00a0<\/em>
\nOn my account you will be brought before governors and kings as witnesses to them and to the Gentiles. <\/em>
\nBut when they arrest you, do not worry about what to say or how to say it. At that time you will be given what to say,\u00a0for it will not be you speaking, but the Spirit of your Father speaking through you.<\/em><\/p>\n

Matthew 10:17-20<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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