{"id":2261,"date":"2013-09-04T05:00:31","date_gmt":"2013-09-04T03:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=2261"},"modified":"2013-10-06T20:58:29","modified_gmt":"2013-10-06T18:58:29","slug":"a-fathers-disappointment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=2261","title":{"rendered":"A FATHER\u2019S DISAPPOINTMENT"},"content":{"rendered":"
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My very dear friend, I arrived this morning at Rome too late to have the happiness of saying holy Mass\u2026 This is the first day since my departure from Genoa that I have been deprived of this consolation. This inconvenience, which I felt very keenly, was a sort of omen of the disasters which I was to learn from your letter of November 10, (no. 1) which pierced me with the most acute sorrow. I had been so happy during my journey! \u2026all that was different from the sorrowful effect that the sinister news had on my soul.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Henri Tempier had written to inform Eugene of the misconduct of Father Vachon, who left the Oblates in November, and of five novices who did not complete their novitiate.<\/p>\n

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It is a very severe trial, I must admit in the isolation in which I find myself; I have already uttered my sighs to the Lord as lovingly as I possibly could at the benediction that I have been to receive in the church of the Ges\u00f9, a few hours after my arrival in this capital of the Christian world.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n

We do not know what Vachon had done. A later letter from Father Dupuy tells how he had asked to become part of the Diocese of Digne as a diocesan priest, but that \u201cthe Bishop is filled with indignation against him\u201d and \u201chow horrible his crime was.\u201d (\u201cBernard Vachon\u201d in the Oblate Historical Dictionary I)<\/p>\n

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I fear greatly that the unfortunate one who has just apostasized may be an accomplished scoundrel. After the short retreat that I made him make at Marseilles, he renewed his vows and gave me in writing the expression of his repentance. You must not hesitate to expel him. I give you the power to dispense him when you will have consulted the Assistants supposing, as I do, that no doubt they are of the same mind. Expel M. Vachon, he has deserved it a thousand times.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Letter to Henri Tempier, 26 November 1825, EO VI n. 208<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0Yvon Beaudoin, in the Historical Dictionary continues: \u201cAfter the name of Vachon in the Registry of entries at the novitiate, Father de Mazenod wrote: \u2018He apostatized in an unworthy manner which leads one to suppose that he perjured himself from the day of his oblation, that is, he only entered the Congregation to get ordained to the priesthood with the set purpose of leaving as soon as he was ordained in spite of his vows and the oath that he swore\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cThere can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.\u201d Martin Luther King, Jr.<\/p>\n

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