{"id":3969,"date":"2019-06-19T05:00:38","date_gmt":"2019-06-19T03:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=3969"},"modified":"2019-04-11T11:45:07","modified_gmt":"2019-04-11T09:45:07","slug":"so-that-he-may-become-a-good-priest-of-the-kind-the-church-needs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=3969","title":{"rendered":"SO THAT HE MAY BECOME A GOOD PRIEST OF THE KIND THE CHURCH NEEDS"},"content":{"rendered":"
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My dear Son, my intention is to ordain Brother Kotterer at the first ordination in Lent\u2026 I am sending him to Aix, my intention being that he enter the novitiate and spend the whole time there in profound retreat under the special direction of the master of novices. Please place this dear ordination candidate in his care as I have placed him in yours so that he may become a good priest of the kind the Church needs.<\/span><\/strong><\/h5>\n
Affectionate greetings and my blessing to all.<\/span><\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Letter to Hippolyte Court\u00e8s, 1 March 1835, EO VIII n 507<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

The future priest is entrusted to the director of novices, Father Casimir Aubert, for his retreat.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Please take special care of Brother Kotterer. Take advantage of his retreat to instil in him the great principles of religious life: detachment especially, death to self, cheerful obedience, total dedication to the Church and to the (Oblate) family, support of his brothers, etc.<\/span><\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Letter to Casimir Aubert, 10 March 1835, EO VIII n 508<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>The vision that Calixte Kotterer had been formed into, and which he is to be reminded of during his retreat is found in Eugene’s \u00a0document we today know as the “Preface”:<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cWhat did Our Lord Jesus Christ do? He chose a certain number of apostles and disciples whom He formed in piety and filled with His spirit; and after having trained them in his school and the practice of all virtues, He sent them forth to conquer the world which they soon brought under the rule of his holy laws.<\/span><\/strong><\/h5>\n
What must we, in turn, do to succeed in winning back for Jesus Christ so many souls who have cast off his yoke? We must work seriously to become saints, walk courageously in the footsteps of so many apostles who have left us such fine examples of virtue in the exercise of a ministry to which, like them, we are called; renounce ourselves totally, maintain in view exclusively the glory of God, the building of the Church, the salvation of souls; renew ourselves constantly in the spirit of our vocation; live in a habitual state of self-denial and in an unremitting determination to achieve perfection, working unstintingly to become humble, gentle, obedient, lovers of poverty, repentant, mortified, detached from the world and our families, brimming with zeal, ready to sacrifice our goods, our talents, our rest, our persons and our lives for the love of Jesus Christ, the service of the Church and the sanctification of our neighbour. Then, filled with confidence in God, we must enter the lists and fight unto death for the greater glory of God.\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n

from the Nota bene (1818 Rule)<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>See also: https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=66<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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