Eugene had spent the summer months in Switzerland with the students preparing themselves to be Missionaries. He was always sad when he had to leave this community and return to Marseilles and the burdens of being Vicar General in difficult times for the Church.<\/p>\n
\nMy dear children. I am never going to become such a stoic as not to feel it when taking my leave of a community like yours. It is just as well I don\u2019t experience the need to acquire that pagan brand of virtue, sign as it is of a total lack of charity and complete heartlessness\u2026<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Uniting himself with them in the practice of oraison, he expressed his fatherly love for them:<\/p>\n
\nHow much I love you! I feel it when I am with you. I feel it when I am far from you, you are always present to my thoughts and you live in my heart. <\/strong><\/h5>\n
Yesterday and today I was with you in the spirit at your prayer times. This morning I was at Our Lord\u2019s feet in the church at Geneva at the self-same moment as you were surrounding the divine Master in the course of midday prayer and examen. I saw you in Him, and thus, although already far away, we were very close to one another.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Letter to Father Mille and the novices and scholastics of Billens, 17 September 1831, EO VIII n 403<\/em><\/p>\n
Through oraison he was able to be in communion with the Oblates through the uniting presence of Jesus the Savior.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Eugene had spent the summer months in Switzerland with the students preparing themselves to be Missionaries. He was always sad when he had to leave this community and return to Marseilles and the burdens of being Vicar General in difficult … Continue reading