{"id":5068,"date":"2022-03-18T01:00:18","date_gmt":"2022-03-18T00:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5068"},"modified":"2022-03-18T01:19:15","modified_gmt":"2022-03-18T00:19:15","slug":"providence-is-opening-up-a-new-field-for-your-zeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5068","title":{"rendered":"PROVIDENCE IS OPENING UP A NEW FIELD FOR YOUR ZEAL"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fr Etienne Semeria was a successful mission preacher in Corsica, (see: https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=4685<\/a>) and Eugene intended to recall him to Marseilles to look after the large number of Italian dockworkers in the city. “Shortly after his arrival in Marseilles as vicar general of the diocese in 1823, Father de Mazenod noticed that many Italian immigrants were deprived of spiritual help because of a lack of priests to minister to them in their own language. He resolved to take this matter in hand and gathered them in the church at Le Calvaire which, shortly before, had been entrusted to the Missionaries of Provence. He then put in charge of this work the Oblates of Italian origin.”(https:\/\/www.omiworld.org\/lemma\/marseilles-ministry-italians\/<\/a>)<\/h3>\n

Providence is opening up a new field for your zeal. I hope that the mission at Marseilles to your countrymen will make up for what you have not been able to do elsewhere.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

… Nothing is more moving than your mission at Guagno. That will be an edifying page for our successors in the history of our missions. Your mission of Suarella, like all the others, has been blessed by the Lord, thanks be to Him.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

Letter to Fr. Etienne Semeria, 25 October 1844, EO X n 860<\/em><\/h3>\n

It was because of his successes in parish missions on the island that the local Bishop fought against Fr. Semeria’s move, and thus he never returned to Marseilles for the Italian ministry. God had other plans for him in Asia.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fr Etienne Semeria was a successful mission preacher in Corsica, (see: https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=4685) and Eugene intended to recall him to Marseilles to look after the large number of Italian dockworkers in the city. “Shortly after his arrival in Marseilles as vicar … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5068\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}