{"id":5081,"date":"2022-03-29T01:00:18","date_gmt":"2022-03-28T23:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5081"},"modified":"2022-03-25T20:07:07","modified_gmt":"2022-03-25T19:07:07","slug":"assigned-to-visit-these-various-lumber-camps-to-provide-the-comfort-of-their-ministry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5081","title":{"rendered":"ASSIGNED TO VISIT THESE VARIOUS LUMBER CAMPS TO PROVIDE THE COMFORT OF THEIR MINISTRY"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the search for funds to maintain the foreign missions in Canada, Eugene wrote to the Propagation of the Faith describing the latest missionary outreach of the Oblates.<\/h3>\n

I wish to avail myself of this occasion to tell you something about the importance and the needs of the foundation recently opened by our Congregation at Bytown in the diocese of Kingston, as well as the one to be opened next spring in the Hudson Bay district. Besides the service rendered to the Catholics entrusted to their care in the city itself and to those of the other parishes where they go to preach missions, the fathers in the Bytown community have also been instructed to bring spiritual assistance to the men working in the lumber camps.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

There are thousands of these lumberjacks in small groups spread throughout the forest where they spend the summer season felling trees. Up to now bereft of the comfort of religion, they have abandoned themselves to all kinds of excesses and became the scourges of the parishes where they returned after their work. <\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

In order to prevent such a great evil, the bishop of the Diocese wanted the Missionaries of Bytown to be assigned to visit these various lumber camps to provide the comfort of their ministry to all those gathered there.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

Letter to the Council of the Propagation of the Faith, 23 December 1844, EO V n 90<\/em><\/h3>\n

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