Father Court\u00e8s was chaplain to a high school in Aix. As a result of the government\u2019s anti-religious measures it appears that he was ignored at the annual prize-giving ceremony. Eugene responded:<\/p>\n
\n… If next year the convocation is to be presided over by the same man, you will have good reason to spare yourself the misery of being in attendance. I hope that public indignation will do justice to this outrage which makes me throw my arms up at the pity of it.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Letter to Hippolyte Court\u00e8s, 26 August 1828, EO VII n 312<\/em><\/p>\n
It must be made very clear that Eugene was not looking for personal honors for the Oblates or for himself. In the growing climate of hostility against the Church, it was the office and role of the chaplain that Eugene wanted honored, not the person. By ignoring Court\u00e8s, they are ignoring what he represented: the religious aspect of the life of the school. This is why Eugene refers to \u201cpublic indignation at this outrage.\u201d<\/p>\n
Yvon Beaudoin, in a footnote to this letter writes: \u201cFr REY (I. 452) transcribes, at the same time as he modifies, another passage of this letter in which there is question of Fr. Suzanne, being named canon by Bishop Fortun\u00e9 de Mazenod. The Founder received this nomination favourably, writes Fr. Rey, but on condition that<\/p>\n
\nnothing be changed either in the costume or in the style of life and, at the first sign of the superior, one would strip oneself without flinching of what one had only accepted by obedience and by conviction of the opportuneness thereof for the common good.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Any honors bestowed on Oblates were to be seen as being for the good of the Church, and not for the individual.<\/p>\n
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\u201cWhen you get to be President, there are all those things, the honors, the twenty-one gun salutes, all those things. You have to remember it isn’t for you. It’s for the Presidency.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 Harry S Truman<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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