{"id":5045,"date":"2022-02-22T02:00:46","date_gmt":"2022-02-22T01:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5045"},"modified":"2022-02-19T19:32:23","modified_gmt":"2022-02-19T18:32:23","slug":"the-young-men-living-there-to-prepare-for-preaching-missions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5045","title":{"rendered":"THE YOUNG MEN LIVING THERE TO PREPARE FOR PREACHING MISSIONS"},"content":{"rendered":"

As the Oblate missions developed in France and outside, it was essential to ensure a supply of new missionaries to meet the demands of evangelizing the most abandoned. For this reason Eugene had established our first juniorate, at Notre Dame des Lumi\u00e8res, to complete the schooling of youth who were discerning a possible vocation. The government authorities accused him of running a school, in competition with the local schools and using their funding. Eugene responded.<\/h3>\n

My dear Rector, Thank you for kindly addressing yourself to me for information about the facts that were reported to you relative to the community of Lumi\u00e8res. I cannot understand without further information how anyone could tell the Inspector that there were 60 pupils there who were in no way different from educational boarding school students. The young men living there to prepare for preaching missions are eleven or twelve in number. There are none there who are preparing for a lay career. Everyone, once they are sufficiently prepared, is directed to the novitiate properly speaking…<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

I would not tolerate keeping anyone who does not have the intention of being a missionary for diocesan or foreign missions, and I am certain that the Director of the community keeps scrupulously within the limits of the goal I have mentioned. He knows very well that if he went beyond them he would diminish the spirit and purpose of an institution that I am not supporting in order to have pupils for school and that he would compromise a precious interest of the spiritual order for the good of souls.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

The letter gives us the opportunity to see the whole picture of training for Oblate missionary life: postulants, novices and scholastics.<\/h3>\n

However, my dear Rector, I can explain how the number that they gave to the Inspector about the number of young people at Lumi\u00e8res is so much above what is there. They confused the students from the Major Seminary in Marseilles where they are studying theology, who went to spend their breaks at Lumi\u00e8res with the young men who live there on a regular basis. The first have already completed their novitiate and are there only for the holidays without being at all taken up with classical studies, and they are usually some 18. The others, much fewer in number, are as yet only postulants who are quite different from boarders in an educational institute, are far from being able to pay for any upkeep for the establishment for which I must find other sources. They do not belong to well-to-do families as you were told.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

+ C.J. Eugene, Bishop of Marseilles.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

Letter to the Rector of the Academy at Nimes, 22 July 1844, EO XIII n 102<\/em><\/h3>\n

The practice of having Oblate juniorates has generally been discontinued. This letter, however, reminds us of the ongoing need for an awareness of the need for vocations to all the branches of the Mazenodian Family and the importance of cultivating a missionary vision that inspires participation.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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