For the sake of peace, Eugene concludes his letter to the Bishop of Fr\u00e9jus by accepting the fact of the men who have left the Misisonaries to return to the diocese.<\/p>\n
\nFor, when all is said and done, since those who provoked the decision of your Council want to leave, let them go.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n
He then summarizes the central characteristics of what the Oblate religious life is about: a community of missionaries whose aim is to asist each other in their relationship to God and their ministry. He returns to the three essential and non-negotiable foundations of the Oblate vocation: a personal spirituality and community life for the sake of apostolic ministry. BE in order to DO.<\/p>\n
\nBut is it possible that Your Lordship, whose kindness and gentleness are so well known, may further do violence to the will of the small number of our brothers who love the holiness of life that we lead in our houses and are called by the attraction of a special vocation to practice higher virtues in great regularity of conduct and wanting to profit from the inestimable benefit of community life, yet without renouncing the exercise of ministry, and thus considering it their supreme happiness to live among us, that you want, Your Lordship, to uproot them from the refuge that Providence has provided them, in which two out of the three of them have been brought up from their childhood and at our expense? I will never be convinced of that.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Letter to Bishop C.A. de Richery of Fr\u00e9jus. 12 November 1823, EO XIII n. 44<\/em><\/p>\n
In stating the essentials of the Oblate vocation, Eugene ends his letter his letter in a tone of peace. From then on, harmony was restored and the Missionaries could continue their good work.<\/p>\n
But all this did highlight the necessity of eventually seeking papal approval for the Oblate Congregation, so that it would cease to be bound to the fancies of individual bishops. It would take a further two years of work for this to become a reality.<\/p>\n
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There are different workings but the same God who produces all of them in everyone. To each individual the manifestation of the Spirit is given for some benefit… But one and the same Spirit produces all of these, distributing them individually to each person as he wishes. As a body is one though it has many parts, and all the parts of the body, though many, are one body, so also Christ<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 1 Corinthians 12:6-12<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
For the sake of peace, Eugene concludes his letter to the Bishop of Fr\u00e9jus by accepting the fact of the men who have left the Misisonaries to return to the diocese. For, when all is said and done, since those … Continue reading