{"id":1695,"date":"2012-09-25T05:00:54","date_gmt":"2012-09-25T03:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=1695"},"modified":"2012-09-23T21:53:45","modified_gmt":"2012-09-23T19:53:45","slug":"accepting-to-serve-the-needs-of-the-pilgrim-poor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=1695","title":{"rendered":"ACCEPTING TO SERVE THE NEEDS OF THE PILGRIM POOR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><\/em>Some background information on this new mission in Marseille:<\/p>\n<p><em>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 was scheduled to take place the following day, May 6. Although improvised, the ceremony was nonetheless surrounded with a brilliance and solemnity worthy of the city. Father Vigne, the vicar-general residing in Marseilles, presided in the name of Bishop de Bausset. A long procession, including the clergy of the city, confraternities of penitents, Brothers of the Christian Schools, all the pastors and an immense crowd left Saint Martin&#8217;s church to escort the Founder and his three confreres to the shrine confided to their care. All four were given a place of honor in the procession, behind the ordinary pastors and directly in front of the canons.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Leflon Volume 2, p. 182<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Their ministry to the pilgrims at the Calvaire took off immediately. Two years later:<\/p>\n<p><em>In 1823, Father Dupuy said that the number of pilgrims was increasing. On certain feastdays, the enclosure, which could only contain several thousand, was more than filled with people who came especially from the populated city sections that surrounded Le Calvaire. Here the missionaries found themselves in their real element. Zealously they applied themselves to serving the needs of the pilgrim poor.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Yvon Beaudoin, \u201cMarseilles, Le Calvaire\u201d in Oblate Historical Dictionary, Volume 1<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another a person comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0<\/em>Frederick Buechner<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=1695\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[16,114],"class_list":["post-1695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings","tag-cross","tag-mission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1695\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}