While waiting to find a permanent house, the three Oblates lived at the seminary.<\/p>\n
\n… You appreciate the advantage of being lodged in the seminary while waiting to find a suitable place. Who knows if God will not find for us some vocation or other amongst so many young students who may be able to conceive some esteem for us in seeing so close to them those whom we would place beside them.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Letter to Henri Tempier, 7 April 1825, EO VI n. 176<\/em><\/p>\n
As soon as they were established in the seminary, Eugene wrote to the new community:<\/p>\n
\nWithout seeming to make a point of it, adopt a very amiable manner with the seminarians. Father Mie must take care not to bring up the subject openly, but my whole desire and my hope is that some of these young people, touched by your good example, your regularity and the sublimity of the ministry to which you are devoted, may become attracted and desirous of joining our ranks.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Letter to Fathers Mie, Honorat and to Brother Guibert, 2 June 1825, EO VI n.180<\/em><\/p>\n
Yvon Beaudoin takes up the story of our fourth establishment:<\/p>\n
Father Pierre Nolasque Mie, the superior, Father Jean-Baptiste Honorat and Hippolyte Guibert, now a deacon, left for N\u00eemes on May 16\u2026They shared the seminary refectory and chapel in common with the seminary professors and students, and also took their recreation with them. This close and daily association was intended to bring in vocations, for these three Oblates were reputed to be skilled recruiters. Bishop de Chaffoy, however, was not going to be caught by this manoeuvre: in the decree erecting the house, he specified that he would allow \u201cdiocesan clergy to be associated to the work of the missions\u201d only \u201cin three years\u2019 time\u201d (Decree of 25 April 1825). Before this time came, the Oblate community had moved into a new house that had been purchased in the spring of 1827 and was located in an area that was completely Protestant.<\/em><\/p>\n
\u201cN\u00eemes, Oblate House from 1825 to 1830\u201d in Oblate Historical Dictionary, Volume 1.<\/em><\/p>\n
\u201cHas it never dawned upon you that the essence of witnessing is just plain honesty? You are salt – whether you feel like it or not. You are not told to act like salt but to be what you are. You are a light. God has done a work in your life. Don’t try to shine. Let the light that God put there shine out. It demands no more than honesty.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 John White<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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