{"id":4918,"date":"2021-10-21T02:00:42","date_gmt":"2021-10-21T00:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=4918"},"modified":"2021-10-15T13:39:21","modified_gmt":"2021-10-15T11:39:21","slug":"we-do-not-want-to-form-clerics-for-parish-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=4918","title":{"rendered":"WE DO NOT WANT TO FORM CLERICS FOR PARISH WORK"},"content":{"rendered":"

For a long time the system of minor seminaries was customary in the Church: schools run by a diocese or religious congregation for youngsters considering a priestly or religious vocation. The Oblates had just started their first one at the Shrine of Notre Dame de Lumi\u00e8res.<\/h3>\n

… The establishment that has been formed at Lumi\u00e8res has no other goal than to prepare young people to enter novitiate for diocesan or foreign missions. I would never tolerate that this establishment be in the least deflected from this purpose, for any reason whatsoever. Their occupations have only clerical instruction as their goal. They will all wear the soutane at all times. Previously, five of their fellow students were sent to the novitiate; several of those now at Lumi\u00e8res are about to be sent to the same place.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

As soon as we notice that there is someone who is not fit for the vocation for which he presented himself, we hasten to send him away. We are all that much more strict in this regard for it is extremely important that the house avoid entirely the spirit and character of a boarding school; and, what is more, all those young men supported there for a special vocation do not even pay their board and lodging expenses.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

We have definitely a different idea than simply to give a free education to children called to some worldly profession. The latter is a kind of good that we cannot and do not want to do, not any more than we want to form clerics for parish work.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

Letter to the Rector of the Academy at Nimes, 3 November 1843, EO XIII n 101<\/em><\/h3>\n

Eugene stresses that our formation houses intend to form missionary religious brothers and priests whose main occupation is not mainly to be clerics for parish work, but missionaries in whatever situation they find themselves. The same principle holds for the laity of our Mazenodian Family: each person has the vocation to be a missionary cooperator rather than just “Father’s helper.”<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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