{"id":5085,"date":"2022-04-01T02:00:45","date_gmt":"2022-04-01T00:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5085"},"modified":"2022-03-29T02:32:30","modified_gmt":"2022-03-29T00:32:30","slug":"it-suits-us-to-spread-out-so-as-not-to-die-out-quickly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5085","title":{"rendered":"IT SUITS US TO SPREAD OUT SO AS NOT TO DIE OUT QUICKLY"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Founder, as Superior General, regularly held decision-making Oblate council meetings. The minutes of January 1845 start off with a long statement on the poverty of the Congregation, which had hardly any funds but spent large amounts to feed and clothe \u201csome sixty young men.\u201d These were the juniors at Lumi\u00e8res, the novices at L\u2019Osier, and the scholastics at Marseilles. In spite of this enormous expense, it was decided to accept the ministry and administration of the shrine of Notre-Dame de Bon Secours in the Diocese of Viviers.<\/h3>\n

Eugene described this move to Father Court\u00e8s in Aix:<\/h3>\n

Things have gotten to such a point that yesterday in Council, we were just about to give up the valuable foundation at La Blach\u00e8re. Especially Tempier argued strongly in favour of abandoning that project, not only because we lacked the men, but also because we do not have the money, and it is impossible for us to incur the expenses of a very costly construction.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

I fought against his position which not only would prevent the Congregation from doing a good work that is in line with its Institute, but which would also deprive us at the same time of a valuable source from which we could hope for an increase in our members.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

Experience has proven that wherever we have established ourselves, we have in a first period brought to our ranks a goodly number of excellent recruits; but soon these sources become exhausted and produce no more. Look at Aix, how many good candidates came from there? But for how many years now have there been no more? At Gap, the same situation occurred. Marseilles has given its share; but if we still get a few more there, it is the seminary that is bringing them to us. And so it suits us to spread out so as not to die out quickly.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

Letter to Fr. Hippolyte Court\u00e8s in Aix en Provence, 4 January 1845, EO X n 864<\/em><\/h3>\n

Yvon Beaudoin comments in the footnote to this letter: ” It is interesting to note how Father Tempier, the procurator general, is concerned about bringing the Congregation into debt and consequently insists that we should not over-reach ourselves by accepting a place where housing needs to be built immediately. The Founder however shows that he has a wider view, more audacity and more zeal in allowing his sons to practise their ministry in a new region, despite the Congregation\u2019s few resources in men and money<\/em>.”<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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