{"id":4917,"date":"2021-10-20T02:00:33","date_gmt":"2021-10-20T00:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=4917"},"modified":"2021-10-15T13:34:52","modified_gmt":"2021-10-15T11:34:52","slug":"compassion-always-predominated-in-my-resolutions-and-i-continued-to-shower-him-with-acts-of-generosity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=4917","title":{"rendered":"COMPASSION ALWAYS PREDOMINATED IN MY RESOLUTIONS, AND I CONTINUED TO SHOWER HIM WITH ACTS OF GENEROSITY"},"content":{"rendered":"

This extract from Eugene’s Diary gives an insight into his care for the members of his Oblate family, and for his concern for those who misbehaved. Father Reinaud had become an Oblate in 1830 and for the following 13 years had been a successful seminary professor in Corsica and Marseilles. He was also very ambitious, hoping to be made a bishop, and had engaged in serious deceitful behaviour at times to achieve his own ends.\u00a0 Eugene noted in his diary:<\/h3>\n

I did not reply to him at all, because in doing so, I ought to have previously provoked his expulsion from the congregation, which he dishonored by the principles which he professed, by his remarks and by his conduct. If there are some setbacks in the calculations of his ambition, it is a just punishment by God. He was mistaken, if he believed that we were duped by his duplicity. Alas, we knew all his intrigues, and, if I agreed to his departure, this was only in order to avoid an inevitable scandal which would not have delayed in happening if by any chance I should have hesitated in taking this course of action. Did not the madman say that he had been called to destinies other than the tight circle wherein he was enclosed?<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

He had previously asked for some time away from the Congregation, which Eugene had agreed to in the hope of his changing. His mother had incurred debts and the Oblates had provided her with a livelihood.<\/h3>\n

It would have pleased God if justice had been done to this malicious subject during this period! We would have spared ourselves some grief. But compassion always predominated in my resolutions, and I continued to shower him with acts of generosity to the point of annually giving him a very considerable sum so as to support his mother too given over to vice and to furnish her with everything she needs. I am not speaking about the expenses of journeying to Lyon and elsewhere, in a word, of everything that could be done for the subject, the most precious and the most worthy of a congregation which his malicious heart made him detest, as he proved on a hundred occasions… It is with sorrow that I write all this.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

Eugene de Mazenod\u2019s Diary, 23 October 1843, EO XXI<\/em><\/h3>\n

He was finally to be expelled from the Congregation the following year and he became a diocesan priest and worked in Ceylon (Sri Lanka) where, again, he set in motion events involving the Oblates to enable him to become a bishop. He failed again!<\/h3>\n

I reflected on this extract because of the words ” compassion always predominated in my resolutions, and I continued to shower him with acts of generosity<\/strong>.” No matter what mistakes Oblates made, Eugene always tried the way of compassion in order to help them to amend their ways. If this did not work, then he had no choice but to turn to the most severe course of action: expulsion.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This extract from Eugene’s Diary gives an insight into his care for the members of his Oblate family, and for his concern for those who misbehaved. Father Reinaud had become an Oblate in 1830 and for the following 13 years … 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-4917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4917","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=4917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4917\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}