{"id":4930,"date":"2021-11-02T02:00:16","date_gmt":"2021-11-02T01:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=4930"},"modified":"2021-10-25T09:01:46","modified_gmt":"2021-10-25T07:01:46","slug":"ideal-and-beautiful-for-missionaries-who-live-only-for-the-glory-of-god-and-the-salvation-of-souls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=4930","title":{"rendered":"IDEAL AND BEAUTIFUL FOR MISSIONARIES WHO LIVE ONLY FOR THE GLORY OF GOD AND THE SALVATION OF SOULS"},"content":{"rendered":"

A month after his previous letter accepting a new Oblate mission in Bytown (Ottawa), Eugene’s enthusiasm continued to be expressed.<\/h3>\n

If ever anything compelled belief, it was what you proved so convincingly and what the Bishop of Montreal properly represented as ideal and beautiful for missionaries who live only for the glory of God and the salvation of souls. So I welcomed with ecstasy this happy news<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

The Oblate Family in France lived the achievements of their brothers in the foreign missions as if they were their own – it was as a Mazenodian Family that they participated from a distance. Eugene thus always shared the letters from these Missionaries with all the members of his religious family.<\/h3>\n

and, to sustain the zeal and renew the courage of those who had shown readiness to dedicate themselves to the missions of the new world, I hastened to send copies of the kind and excellent letter of the Bishop of Montreal to each of our houses.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

They were overjoyed and rightly regarded this new mission as a sign of the protection of God and a means of doing immense good whether to the Indigenous or to the Christians forsaken in the forests for so long a period of time. I wrote you in this vein, persuaded that I had only to ratify what, I gathered from you, must have already begun.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

Letter to Jean Baptiste Honorat, in Canada,7 February 1844, EO I n 30<\/em><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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