{"id":5064,"date":"2022-03-14T02:00:10","date_gmt":"2022-03-14T01:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5064"},"modified":"2022-03-12T22:20:20","modified_gmt":"2022-03-12T21:20:20","slug":"the-diocesan-priests-need-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5064","title":{"rendered":"THE DIOCESAN PRIESTS NEED COMMUNITY"},"content":{"rendered":"

As a Missionary Oblate, community life was an essential aspect of Bishop Eugene’s life. He understood the difficulty of living and working alone without fraternal encouragement. Without a link to a supportive community the priest could succumb to problems. His diary entry shows that this had happened to one of the priests in his diocese.<\/h3>\n

Is it a warning, is it a reproach that the Lord is giving me today? I have just learned that a priest of my diocese is behaving badly, from which I conclude that I must, more than ever, insist that the priests live in community. This one arrived at this excess only gradually.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

Eugene’s solution was to insist that all the diocesan priests serving in the same parish would live together. His appeal led to major opposition among the clergy.<\/h3>\n

Do I not have to blame myself for having stopped myself in front of almost insurmountable obstacles, I must admit that from every corner there is opposition to the resolution that I had taken to oblige my priests to live in community? This example will provide me a further argument, when finally I shall smash all the obstacles which each has not ceased to place before the execution of a plan which was conceived only in a supernatural perspective for the honor of the Church and the preservation of the clergy.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

He had been so discouraged by their reaction and had not pushed strongly enough.<\/h3>\n

If I had been helped a little, I would have obtained more results than those which I have been able to obtain. Has it not been said that I was the only one to insist on this measure, and that I would be obliged to give it up.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

Eugene de Mazenod\u2019s Diary, 3 October 1844, EO XXI<\/em><\/h3>\n

Eugene insisted on this until the day of his death, but it was a losing battle that dissolved on the day after his death.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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