{"id":1577,"date":"2012-07-24T05:00:51","date_gmt":"2012-07-24T03:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=1577"},"modified":"2012-07-20T18:17:39","modified_gmt":"2012-07-20T16:17:39","slug":"struggling-for-harmony-in-the-communion-of-saints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=1577","title":{"rendered":"STRUGGLING FOR HARMONY IN THE COMMUNION OF SAINTS"},"content":{"rendered":"
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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, how touching is the communion of the saints<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Letter to Jean Baudrand, 11 January 1850, O.W. I n. 126<\/em><\/p>\n

The concept of all the members of the Church forming a \u201ccommunion of saints\u201d \u2013 a family in God – is one that we come across regularly in Eugene\u2019s writings. Our Rule of Life today continues to stress the necessity of working in a spirit of fraternity in the local church:<\/p>\n

We coordinate our missionary activity with the overall pastoral plan of the local Churches where we work, and we collaborate in a spirit of brotherhood with others who work for the Gospel.<\/em><\/p>\n

CC&RR, Constitution 6<\/em><\/p>\n

Leflon\u2019s descriptions of the 1820 mission in Marseille reflect the struggle for harmony despite human weaknesses.<\/p>\n

The pastor of the Cathedral, particularly, did not want the Missionaries of Provence, although they would have been better suited to his flock; his parishioners reacted to his blunder by flocking to Saint Laurent church and the church of the Carmes to hear the Founder, thereby adding to the congestion of those two churches.<\/em><\/p>\n

In this letter, the president related the remark made to Father Gautier, pastor of the cathedral, by the pastor of Saint Theodore’s, Father Bonnefoy, who took up the defense of Father de Mazenod in the course of a meeting of church wardens and pastors of the city:<\/em><\/p>\n

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“Today is not the only time that you have declared yourself opposed to the revered Missionaries of Aix. Could the reason be that after having requested the gentlemen from Paris as preachers in your church, you have forced your parishioners who did not understand them any more than if they had spoken Russian, to flock constantly to Saint Laurent and the Carmes? It is your fault and not that of the priests from Aix.<\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Reported by President de Mazenod to Fortun\u00e9, March 14, 1820. P.R., FB VI-3.<\/em><\/p>\n

Despite the human weaknesses and divisions, the harmony of the mission was achieved<\/p>\n

Although each missionary group had done God’s work and had won great popularity, their appeal was not to the same class of people. The Proven\u00e7als were favorites in the workers’ quarters while the Parisians monopolized the favor of the aristocratic and bourgeois quarters, each group being suited to these quarters respectively due to their style of preaching. Along with apportioning the work satisfactorily, they maintained the most complete harmony among themselves because of the friendship existing between their chiefs, Forbin Janson and de Mazenod. <\/em><\/p>\n

Leflon 2, p. 115 – 116<\/em><\/p>\n

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The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em>Albert Schweitzer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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