{"id":4764,"date":"2021-04-21T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-21T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=4764"},"modified":"2021-04-20T18:16:18","modified_gmt":"2021-04-20T16:16:18","slug":"missionary-dedication-overcomes-personal-preferences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=4764","title":{"rendered":"MISSIONARY DEDICATION OVERCOMES PERSONAL PREFERENCES"},"content":{"rendered":"

St. Eugene wrote to the Bishop of Montreal to thank him for the warm and fatherly welcome he had given to the newly-arrived Oblates.<\/h3>\n
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Their letters prove to me that they know and appreciate the sentiments you manifest to them and that in return, they are, amongst your priests, the most devoted and the most attached to your revered person.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The welcome given to the Oblates helped them to settle down smoothly. Eugene was particularly concerned about Father Honorat, the superior of the group, who had accepted this mission out of obedience to Eugene and not out of choice.<\/h3>\n
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Apparently the protection and the kindnesses with which you honour them make everything worthwhile for Father Honorat finds nothing hard or difficult. Even the climate, so unlike ours, is not disagreeable to him. It could be said that they have not made any sacrifice in leaving their native land. Yet this good Father Honorat was not attracted like the others to this far-off mission and, while he did not raise objections, I really believed he sacrificed himself by obedience in an admirably supernatural manner because he understood that such was the desire of his superior.<\/strong><\/h4>\n

As a matter of fact, he is a man of eminent virtue. He would wish that I add another two members to his little colony, and I would ask nothing better if the glory of God is at stake and the greater good of souls.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Letter to Bishop Bourget, Bishop of Montreal, 13 April 1842 EO I n 11<\/em><\/p>\n

Father Honorat showed his strength of character and missionary zeal in the way he sacrificed his personal preferences for the glory of God and the salvation of souls. A good example for us today as we are surrounded by \u201cme first\u201d and relativism.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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