First abuse:<\/strong><\/h5>\nWe must be scrupulously exact in seeing that the baker hired to provide bread for the prisoners does not underhandedly slip in bread that has gone bad; having noticed this abuse the first day he carried out his duties, and having made complaints to the baker, the Semainier was promised by the said baker that it would not happen in the future, and, actually, the bread was excellent all the rest of the week.<\/strong><\/h5>\nSecond abuse:<\/strong><\/h5>\nallowed to creep in, one that can have dangerous consequences and, hence, one which must be remedied immediately;<\/strong><\/h5>\nat the end of each quarter the said baker presents a statement on the amount of bread delivered, but no one verifies the accuracy of this statement.<\/strong><\/h5>\nTo help us proceed correctly, the baker should be obliged to present, along with this quarterly statement, the day by day delivery slips, signed by the officer of the week. Verification would then be made and, in this way, we can be sure of the accuracy of his statement.\u201d<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\nReports from the minutes of the meeting, quoted by Leflon I p. 282<\/em><\/p>\nTelling his father about this new area of concern for him, Eugene wrote:<\/p>\n
\nwhatever about this deplorable disposition of the very great majority of the unfortunates confided in part to my care, I try to obtain for them all the comforts that depend on me, whether it be by taking care that the bread the government provides for them is of good quality, or having the soup that the results of our appeals obtains for us served to them each day through the ministry of our Ladies of Prisons, or in preserving them from the rigors of the season with good overcoats, or saving them from being dirty by giving them a weekly change of shirt, or giving them bed sheets when they are ill, all with money raised by appeals\u2026<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\nLetter to his father, 19 January 1807, EO XIV n 21<\/em><\/p>\nA few years later, Eugene would insist that a hallmark of the method of our spirituality had to be to help people be more fully human, then Christian, then saints. His concern for the welfare of the prisoners clearly shows the starting point in his own life.<\/p>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\n\u201cThere are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 Mahatma Gandhi<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Leflon writes: \u201cInstalled on December 30, 1806, \u2018Demazenot fils\u2019: immediately assumed the duties of the Semainier (the director in charge for one week), and, in this capacity, presented, on January 6, 1807, a report that had the Mazenod touch, and … Continue reading
Second abuse:<\/strong><\/h5>\nallowed to creep in, one that can have dangerous consequences and, hence, one which must be remedied immediately;<\/strong><\/h5>\nat the end of each quarter the said baker presents a statement on the amount of bread delivered, but no one verifies the accuracy of this statement.<\/strong><\/h5>\nTo help us proceed correctly, the baker should be obliged to present, along with this quarterly statement, the day by day delivery slips, signed by the officer of the week. Verification would then be made and, in this way, we can be sure of the accuracy of his statement.\u201d<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\nReports from the minutes of the meeting, quoted by Leflon I p. 282<\/em><\/p>\nTelling his father about this new area of concern for him, Eugene wrote:<\/p>\n
\nwhatever about this deplorable disposition of the very great majority of the unfortunates confided in part to my care, I try to obtain for them all the comforts that depend on me, whether it be by taking care that the bread the government provides for them is of good quality, or having the soup that the results of our appeals obtains for us served to them each day through the ministry of our Ladies of Prisons, or in preserving them from the rigors of the season with good overcoats, or saving them from being dirty by giving them a weekly change of shirt, or giving them bed sheets when they are ill, all with money raised by appeals\u2026<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\nLetter to his father, 19 January 1807, EO XIV n 21<\/em><\/p>\nA few years later, Eugene would insist that a hallmark of the method of our spirituality had to be to help people be more fully human, then Christian, then saints. His concern for the welfare of the prisoners clearly shows the starting point in his own life.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n\u201cThere are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 Mahatma Gandhi<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Leflon writes: \u201cInstalled on December 30, 1806, \u2018Demazenot fils\u2019: immediately assumed the duties of the Semainier (the director in charge for one week), and, in this capacity, presented, on January 6, 1807, a report that had the Mazenod touch, and … Continue reading
at the end of each quarter the said baker presents a statement on the amount of bread delivered, but no one verifies the accuracy of this statement.<\/strong><\/h5>\nTo help us proceed correctly, the baker should be obliged to present, along with this quarterly statement, the day by day delivery slips, signed by the officer of the week. Verification would then be made and, in this way, we can be sure of the accuracy of his statement.\u201d<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\nReports from the minutes of the meeting, quoted by Leflon I p. 282<\/em><\/p>\nTelling his father about this new area of concern for him, Eugene wrote:<\/p>\n
\nwhatever about this deplorable disposition of the very great majority of the unfortunates confided in part to my care, I try to obtain for them all the comforts that depend on me, whether it be by taking care that the bread the government provides for them is of good quality, or having the soup that the results of our appeals obtains for us served to them each day through the ministry of our Ladies of Prisons, or in preserving them from the rigors of the season with good overcoats, or saving them from being dirty by giving them a weekly change of shirt, or giving them bed sheets when they are ill, all with money raised by appeals\u2026<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\nLetter to his father, 19 January 1807, EO XIV n 21<\/em><\/p>\nA few years later, Eugene would insist that a hallmark of the method of our spirituality had to be to help people be more fully human, then Christian, then saints. His concern for the welfare of the prisoners clearly shows the starting point in his own life.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n\u201cThere are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 Mahatma Gandhi<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Leflon writes: \u201cInstalled on December 30, 1806, \u2018Demazenot fils\u2019: immediately assumed the duties of the Semainier (the director in charge for one week), and, in this capacity, presented, on January 6, 1807, a report that had the Mazenod touch, and … Continue reading
Reports from the minutes of the meeting, quoted by Leflon I p. 282<\/em><\/p>\n Telling his father about this new area of concern for him, Eugene wrote:<\/p>\n Letter to his father, 19 January 1807, EO XIV n 21<\/em><\/p>\n A few years later, Eugene would insist that a hallmark of the method of our spirituality had to be to help people be more fully human, then Christian, then saints. His concern for the welfare of the prisoners clearly shows the starting point in his own life.<\/p>\n \u201cThere are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 Mahatma Gandhi<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Leflon writes: \u201cInstalled on December 30, 1806, \u2018Demazenot fils\u2019: immediately assumed the duties of the Semainier (the director in charge for one week), and, in this capacity, presented, on January 6, 1807, a report that had the Mazenod touch, and … Continue reading \n
whatever about this deplorable disposition of the very great majority of the unfortunates confided in part to my care, I try to obtain for them all the comforts that depend on me, whether it be by taking care that the bread the government provides for them is of good quality, or having the soup that the results of our appeals obtains for us served to them each day through the ministry of our Ladies of Prisons, or in preserving them from the rigors of the season with good overcoats, or saving them from being dirty by giving them a weekly change of shirt, or giving them bed sheets when they are ill, all with money raised by appeals\u2026<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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