{"id":5052,"date":"2022-03-02T02:00:44","date_gmt":"2022-03-02T01:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5052"},"modified":"2022-02-25T22:30:12","modified_gmt":"2022-02-25T21:30:12","slug":"god-willed-that-in-spite-of-the-imperfections-of-the-oblates-the-mission-be-successful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5052","title":{"rendered":"GOD WILLED THAT, IN SPITE OF THE IMPERFECTIONS OF THE OBLATES, THE MISSION BE SUCCESSFUL"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bishop Bourget had warmly welcomed the Oblates to his diocese three years earlier. We have seen, while reflecting on the earlier correspondence, that internal difficulties had arisen between the Oblates themselves. Despite this, their pastoral zeal had produced abundant fruit among the people.<\/h3>\n

How can I do otherwise than always begin by expressing to you my sentiments of liveliest gratitude and of tender friendship when you never cease giving me proofs of your paternal kindness for the children I have placed in your heart. I am filled with grief because, in spite of their goodwill, they may have often given you concern. Seek the cause of my mortification over this affair in a combination of circumstances which affected the first contingent.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

Now, Eugene had sent Father Guigues to take matters in hand. Reflecting on this experience, Eugene saw the hand of God in all the events.<\/h3>\n

If there had been available to me then the person I have just sent to you, things would have been better but the good God did not grant this. He apparently willed that we pass through this humiliation and show that to Him alone, in spite of the imperfections of men, is due the success of an enterprise which is to procure His glory and the good of so many souls redeemed by the blood of his Divine Son. After God, to you, dear Monseigneur, goes all the merit of this great work.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

Letter to Bishop Bourget of Montreal, 9 August 1844, EO I n 45<\/em><\/h3>\n

Here Eugene succinctly sums up the heart of our charism: the salvation of souls redeemed by the blood of the Savior. This is the reason for the existence of the Mazenodian Family: to bring the most abandoned to know the love and ongoing care of the Savior who gave everything for them on the Cross.” Evangelizare pauperibus misit me.” Each of us is called to share our experience of salvation in word and in actions – despite our imperfections and mistakes. God assures the success.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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