{"id":4780,"date":"2021-05-05T02:00:45","date_gmt":"2021-05-05T00:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=4780"},"modified":"2021-04-29T00:06:40","modified_gmt":"2021-04-28T22:06:40","slug":"laity-associated-with-the-oblates-in-mission-and-in-spiritual-benefits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=4780","title":{"rendered":"LAITY ASSOCIATED WITH THE OBLATES IN MISSION AND IN SPIRITUAL BENEFITS"},"content":{"rendered":"

Writing to the benefactors who had been so generous to the Oblate missionaries in Canada, Eugene wrote to express his gratitude. A gratitude not expressed only in words, but in the action of making them Associates in all the spiritual benefits of the Oblates – as is expressed in making persons “Honorary Oblates.”<\/h3>\n
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To Monsieur and Madame Olivier Berthelet,<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Greeting and benediction in Our Lord Jesus Christ!<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Your piety has inspired you, for the sake of your souls, with the desire to request that we admit you into communication of the good works of our Congregation. This request is all the more agreeable to us in that we know how much this Congregation is indebted to you for the gift your pious charity has made to her of the beautiful place where those of our members who have gone to evangelise Canada will have their dwelling in the diocese of Montreal. By your generosity, you are taking a great part in the good to be done in this country and you have acquired a right to our just gratitude.<\/strong><\/h3>\n

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So it is wholeheartedly that in virtue of the authority invested in us by the Holy See as Superior General of the said Congregation we grant you in Jesus Christ participation in the merits of the sacrifices, prayers, fasts and generally in all good works and pious exercises, both spiritual and corporal which, by the grace of God, take place in this Congregation, in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Moreover we pray God the Father of Our Lord Jesus Christ to deign to ratify and confirm in Heaven this spiritual concession, the while we implore Him to make good our poverty from the inexhaustible riches of the treasure of the merits of His Son, also to heap you with graces and blessings in this life and finally to reward you with the crown of eternal glory.<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Given at Marseilles under our sign, the seal of our arms and the countersign of the secretary of the Congregation on the 25th of September, 1842.<\/strong><\/h3>\n

+ C. J. Eugene, Bishop of Marseilles.<\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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By mandate of Monseigneur, our most Reverend Father, Tempier, first assistant.<\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Letter to Mr. and Mrs. Olivier Berthelet at Montreal, 25 September 1842, EO I n 13<\/em><\/h3>\n

In our Mazenodian Family we find this reality continued today.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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