Eugene presents Bourellier as a man without the academic ability to have coped with the regular studies for the priesthood. Yet with his sensitivity for the most abandoned, Eugene did see the possibility of this young man functioning well within the support system of the Missionaries and to use his talents to the best of his ability within those protected circumstances of a community.<\/p>\n
\nWhen I proposed you to His Grace the Archbishop for ordination, I forewarned him that you were profoundly ignorant, that it would not be possible to have you undergo the least examination, that you could not, in a word, be a priest or even a simple student outside a community, but I made myself the guarantor of your virtue, I would answer to him for your good will and I advised him that being irrevocably bound to our Society, you would always find therein the help that was indispensable to the feebleness of your learning, to your lack of general knowledge. These reasons decided him to ordain you.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Bourellier had spoken to Eugene about leaving the Missionaries, and consequently the support system that the community gave him.<\/p>\n
\nIn effect, you could not, without exposing yourself to sinning seriously, do the least priestly function outside the community. I thought you were convinced of that, I thought you also were imbued with the nature of your engagements in our Society, engagements so essential that you could not entertain in your mind thoughts which are contrary to them without sinning most gravely. However, you speak to me of leaving; you speak to me of dislike for the Rule, that is to say, the obedience which you have vowed as well as perseverance.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Letter to Hilarion Bourrelier, 27 August 1821, EO VI n 71<\/em><\/p>\n
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“Brotherhood is the very price and condition of man’s survival.”\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Carlos P. Romulo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Eugene presents Bourellier as a man without the academic ability to have coped with the regular studies for the priesthood. Yet with his sensitivity for the most abandoned, Eugene did see the possibility of this young man functioning well within … Continue reading