{"id":4841,"date":"2021-08-09T04:04:52","date_gmt":"2021-08-09T02:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=4841"},"modified":"2021-08-10T02:36:19","modified_gmt":"2021-08-10T00:36:19","slug":"take-care-to-preserve-all-of-you-the-family-spirit-which-animates-us-i-love-you-already-as-my-children-consider-me-as-your-father","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=4841","title":{"rendered":"TAKE CARE TO PRESERVE, ALL OF YOU, THE FAMILY SPIRIT WHICH ANIMATES US. I LOVE YOU ALREADY AS MY CHILDREN. CONSIDER ME AS YOUR FATHER."},"content":{"rendered":"

A new experience for the Founder, who until now had personally known every Oblate: the lifetime commitment of a new Oblate whom he had never met! He writes in his diary:<\/h3>\n

Letter from Father Dandurand from Longueuil. This Father writes to tell me that he is beginning a retreat in order to make his oblation on Christmas day. His letter is full of pious sentiments. He will be the first fruits of Canada. We are able to give thanks to the Lord, because he is a very good individual.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

Eugene de Mazenod\u2019s Diary, 22 January 1843, EO XXI<\/em><\/h3>\n

Eugene now wrote directly to the first Canadian Oblate:<\/h3>\n

I could not receive, my dear Father Dandurand, a more agreeable gift for the holy season of Christmas than the letter you wrote on the occasion of your approaching oblation. When it was delivered to me, your consecration to God had already taken place and you were decidedly one of us, that is, you had become member of a body which has Mary for Mother and which, under her patronage, wherever her members are to be found, wages the battles of the Lord to destroy the empire of the demon and spread with all its might the Kingdom of Jesus Christ…<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

You are the first fruits of this fine country of Canada to which the Master of the Vineyard has sent the workers of our family. For this reason I owe to you my dearest affection and you can count on it.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

I hope your example will soon be followed by men of goodwill and devotion like yourself. Already Father Leonard and Father Durocher follow in your footsteps. The good God will grant that we shall see others imitate these fine priests of whom much good has already been reported to me.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

Take care to preserve, all of you, the family spirit which animates us. I love you already as my children. Consider me as your father. A day will perhaps come when it will be granted to me to see and embrace you as I actually do in spirit. I give you my blessing and recommend myself to your prayers.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

Letter to Father Damase Dandurand, 22 January 1843, EO I n 15 b<\/em><\/h3>\n

Sentiments which surely Saint Eugene continues to express today every time there is a new member of the Mazenodian Family<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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