{"id":4934,"date":"2021-11-03T02:00:18","date_gmt":"2021-11-03T01:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=4934"},"modified":"2021-11-03T00:23:12","modified_gmt":"2021-11-02T23:23:12","slug":"i-was-furious-at-finding-myself-2000-leagues-from-you-and-unable-to-make-my-voice-reach-you-in-less-than-two-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=4934","title":{"rendered":"I WAS FURIOUS AT FINDING MYSELF 2000 LEAGUES FROM YOU AND UNABLE TO MAKE MY VOICE REACH YOU IN LESS THAN TWO MONTHS."},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0You certainly need to be enterprising if you are called to the conquest of souls. I was furious at finding myself 2000 leagues [ed. about 6000 miles] from you and unable to make my voice reach you in less than two months. And yet your letter of February 2 arrived today, March 1.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Eugene, who was\u00a0 a man of immediate action, struggled to live with the fact that the only means of communication he had with his missionaries in Canada took two months to happen – the length of time for a letter to cross the ocean. He was partulcalry worried here because he had given permission for the Oblates to take on the mission in Bytown, and was worried that the length of time for the post to reach them may have jeopardized the project.<\/p>\n

\u00a0God grant that you may have at last received mine which not only approved this great project but applauded it with delight. This was not something tentative to be tried. You had to go there with the firm resolve to overcome all obstacles, go there to stay, take root there! How could you hesitate? What more beautiful mission than this! Ministry in the lumber camps, missions to the Indigenous, establishment in a city which is wholly of the future. But it is the beautiful dream coming true and you would have let it escape! The thought makes me shiver! Take all your courage in your hands once more and establish yourself there properly. Urge each one to do his duty. It is only thus you will bring upon yourselves the blessing of God…<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Letter to Father Jean Baptiste Honorat, 1 March 1844, EO I n 32.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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