{"id":5055,"date":"2022-03-04T02:00:31","date_gmt":"2022-03-04T01:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5055"},"modified":"2022-03-02T16:45:38","modified_gmt":"2022-03-02T15:45:38","slug":"the-responsibilities-of-a-member-of-a-formation-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5055","title":{"rendered":"THE RESPONSIBILITIES OF A MEMBER OF A FORMATION TEAM"},"content":{"rendered":"

The scholastics (whom Eugene always referred to as “the Oblates”) were studying at the Marseilles Major Seminary, together with the diocesan seminarians. Father Tempier had been the Superior and Formation Director since 1827. At the same time he was also very busy as a Vicar General of the diocese and of the Oblate Congregation. He thus had to rely heavily on the members of his formation team in the seminary. Eugene had close contact with all the students and expressed his concern at some examples of insufficent piety. He wrote to Father Charlses Bellon, one of the formators:<\/h3>\n

I remind you, who are their director, that it is not a question of being satisfied with anything you can achieve, but that they are to put themselves heart and soul into acquiring the virtues that are proper to the state of perfection they have vowed<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

Letter to Father Charles Bellon, 30 August 1844, EO X n 853<\/em><\/h3>\n

\"\"Father Bellon \u00a0was 30 years old, and as we will be encountering him frequently in Eugene’s correspondence, it is good to introduce him. (He was going to be Eugene’s first choice to be Vicar Apostolic of Natal in 1852)<\/h3>\n

“Father Bellon was called to the major seminary of Marseilles in the fall of 1843 to teach dogma there and be spiritual director for the scholastic brothers whose number was growing year by year. In this regard, Father Fabre wrote: \u201cFor their direction, it was necessary to choose a priest who possessed solid and profound learning along with a gentle, enlightened piety, a priest who could teach by his words as well as by his example. Among everyone else, Reverend Father Bellon was worthy of the choice our superiors made of him. During the five years this very difficult and important work was confided to him, he always showed himself equal to his sensitive task.<\/em><\/h3>\n

Never demanding of others what he would not do himself, his life was for the seminarians and for the Oblates a continuous teaching. In class, a conscientious and well-read professor, in chapel and the prayer room, a model of piety, fervour and regularity, in his room he was a good, prudent, enlightened director, without being too weak and without being too rigid, exteriorly of great equanimity, his face inspired confidence, while his words inspired a love of piety. Since he knew how to use his time wisely and having a pious appetite for study, he was able to acquire that depth of learning that would later make him sought after and held in high regard at the provincial council of Agen [in 1859] by the learned and pious clerics, while at the same time he was educating himself and perfecting his knowledge of Hebrew, Italian, German, English and Spanish. His day was marvellously well organized. He had found the means to do a lot of work and do it well, to blend a profound learning with a gentle, kindly piety\u2026\u201d<\/em>\u00a0 (See https:\/\/www.omiworld.org\/lemma\/bellon-charles-barthelemy\/<\/a>)<\/h3>\n

He obviosuly taught by example, but Eugene felt that he needed to be more pro-active.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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