An impressive description of the Oblate outreach to the most abandoned:<\/p>\n
\nThus, at Aix, for example, besides the church that belongs to their house, where the members of the Congregation are attached offer divine service and every evening after prayer give an informal instruction to the people, they are assigned to give religious instruction to prisoners, hearing their confessions, something unheard of before, and when one of them is condemned to death, they accompany him to the scaffold.<\/strong><\/h5>\n
Besides that, they do the religious services at the hospital for incurables, for foundlings, for charity and at the college.<\/strong><\/h5>\n
At Marseilles, besides the service at the church and in prisons as at Aix, they instruct the people from Genoa in Italian and they direct the Major Seminary which is recognized as one of the best in France. At Nimes, besides the church services and the difficult missions in the C\u00e9vennes, which are sprinkled with Protestants, the Bishop has wished to assign to them the camp of 1400 condemned prisoners, a degraded group, who have some notion of morals and religion only from the time that they were confided to the charity of the members of our Congregation who, in this den of thieves, have worked true miracles of conversion. <\/strong><\/h5>\n
Everywhere else the most difficult works of the holy ministry are entrusted to these religious, and if I am to believe the reports that the bishops testify to, they acquit themselves in a way that fully satisfies the solicitude of these vigilant first Pastors.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Letter to Fr. A Grassi SJ, 11 December 1830, EO XIII, n 76.<\/em><\/p>\n
Our 2016 General Chapter certainly showed that this spirit of searching for the new faces of the poor continues today<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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