{"id":4109,"date":"2019-11-06T05:00:30","date_gmt":"2019-11-06T04:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=4109"},"modified":"2019-10-27T21:53:20","modified_gmt":"2019-10-27T20:53:20","slug":"enthralled-by-the-oblate-charism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=4109","title":{"rendered":"ENTHRALLED BY THE OBLATE CHARISM"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eugene recalls the second mission which the Oblates had ever preached , in Fuveau in September 1816 (See https:\/\/www.omiworld.org\/lemma\/suzanne-marius\/<\/a> ) at which the young Marius Suzanne was present. He immediately understood the Oblate charism and wanted to participate in it in every way possible.<\/p>\n

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This man was one of the first fruits of our missions. He joined us during the one we were giving in Fuveau, where his family had their home, for he was born in Aix. Those who write his life will say that in a certain way he did his apprenticeship during that mission. The zeal that this dear child, then 16 or 17 years old, employed in the search for sinners who had the most need of our ministry, his assiduous attendance at all our exercises, his eagerness to approach us whose really excessive workload he wanted to lighten, no doubt earned him the grace of his vocation.<\/strong><\/h5>\n
From that time, I was his confessor and since, his trust equalled the tenderness he inspired in me: neither the one nor the other are forgotten. However, he did not speak with me then about the plan the Lord was inspiring him with, and I for my part said nothing to him about the desire I had that he join us in our work. It was not long before his attraction made him want to come and live in our house; at that time, we had only the one in Aix. He spent some time there still without saying anything about his ulterior aims.<\/strong><\/h5>\n
Finally, on the day we went for the Puget mission, [ed January 1818] near Fr\u00e9jus, he opened his heart to me and, hugging me, he said: I am yours for always.<\/strong><\/h5>\n
Who could have guessed at that time that I was destined to close his eyes in death! I think he was only eighteen years old. He spent fifteen years in the Congregation, Our Annales will say that he put them to very good use! May his memory always be held blessed among us, for he has truly earned the gratitude of the Church and the Congregation. And his death in our bosom was that of the just.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Eugene de Mazenod\u2019s Diary, 31 January 1837, EO XVIII<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Eugene recalls the second mission which the Oblates had ever preached , in Fuveau in September 1816 (See https:\/\/www.omiworld.org\/lemma\/suzanne-marius\/ ) at which the young Marius Suzanne was present. He immediately understood the Oblate charism and wanted to participate in it … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}