{"id":4766,"date":"2021-04-22T02:25:07","date_gmt":"2021-04-22T00:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=4766"},"modified":"2021-04-22T02:25:07","modified_gmt":"2021-04-22T00:25:07","slug":"the-first-canadian-oblate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=4766","title":{"rendered":"THE FIRST CANADIAN OBLATE"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Writing to the Bishop of Montreal about the Oblate missionaries, Eugene said:<span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 1.2em; font-style: italic;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<h4><strong>I await impatiently some news of the first mission that our fathers have given in the parish where you have placed them\u2026 I have learnt from Father Honorat of the blessings God has bestowed on the retreat he gave in collaboration with the charming priest who associated himself with his work and who manifests a willingness to join the Congregation.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3>He is referring to Father Damase Dandurand, a Canadian diocesan priest, who was so impressed by the missionary zeal of the newly-arrived Oblates that he asked to become one.<span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 1.2em; font-style: italic;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<h4><strong>May this first graft on a vine transplanted to so good a soil by the vine keeper that you are be a thousand times blessed! I pray from the depths of my heart to the Father of the Family that he multiply the species and that the example of this first one be soon imitated by a great number of others.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Letter to Bishop Bourget, Bishop of Montreal, 13 April 1842 EO I n 11<\/em><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\">\n\u201cWhen the first Oblates from France, whom Bishop Bourget had obtained from Bishop de Mazenod, arrived in Montreal on December 2, 1841, Father Dandurand was resident in the bishop\u2019s house. Shortly afterwards he decided to join them, and he began his novitiate on December 24, probably in Saint Hilaire. The following year, at Christmas, he took vows in Longueuil. Bishop de Mazenod rejoiced to have found in him \u2018the first fruits of this good country of Canada.\u2019 Starting in 1842, he took part in numerous missions or retreats in the diocese of Montreal and his ministry was specially appreciated by the English speaking Catholics.\u201d<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\">E Lamirande. (See: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omiworld.org\/lemma\/dandurand-damase\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.omiworld.org\/lemma\/dandurand-damase<\/a>\/)<\/p>\n<p>Thus began a long and fruitful ministry which ended with his death at 102 years-of age.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Writing to the Bishop of Montreal about the Oblate missionaries, Eugene said:\u00a0 I await impatiently some news of the first mission that our fathers have given in the parish where you have placed them\u2026 I have learnt from Father Honorat &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=4766\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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-4766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4766","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=4766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4766\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}