{"id":5133,"date":"2022-09-12T01:00:19","date_gmt":"2022-09-11T23:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5133"},"modified":"2022-09-12T01:51:26","modified_gmt":"2022-09-11T23:51:26","slug":"please-accept-the-expression-of-my-deepest-gratitude-for-the-kindness-done-to-my-diocese-in-granting-it-a-few-members-of-your-excellent-congregation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5133","title":{"rendered":"PLEASE ACCEPT THE EXPRESSION OF MY DEEPEST GRATITUDE FOR THE KINDNESS DONE TO MY DIOCESE IN GRANTING IT A FEW MEMBERS OF YOUR EXCELLENT CONGREGATION"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cGo forth and set the world on fire.\u201d \u00a0(St. Ignatius of Loyola)<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

The 63-year old Eugene de Mazenod certainly had his hands full as Bishop of the second-largest city of France and as Superior General of a rapidly expanding missionary congregation in France, the British Isles and Canada. This explains why his writings (and consequently my reflections) constantly cover all these areas by moving from one to the other.<\/h3>\n

In a letter to the Society of Propagation of the Faith, Eugene described the new Oblate venture in the Quebec Diocese.<\/h3>\n

His Excellency the bishop of Quebec wrote to me as follows last October 27… \u201cPlease accept the expression of my deepest gratitude for the kindness done to my diocese in granting it a few members of your excellent Congregation of the Oblates of Mary. Fr. Honorat left three weeks ago with three of his confreres to open a house of his institute at Grande Baie on the Saguenay river. This site is more or less at the center of the settlements being established on the banks of this large river and within the reach of the various places visited by the Indigenous peoples. The opening of this house will be of great advantage for religion especially if the members can be increased as the needs increase, etc.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

Letter to the President of the Council of the Missionary Society of Propagation of the Faith in Lyon, 6 February 1845, EO V n 91<\/em><\/h3>\n

Norman S\u00e9guin explains further:<\/h3>\n

On 15 October 1844, Honorat arrived in the Saguenay region, accompanied by fathers Augustin M\u00e9dard Bourassa, Pierre Fiset, and Flavien Durocher. The Oblates\u2019 responsibility was to lay the foundations of an organized church in this forest region, which had been opened to settlement only six years earlier. While his missionaries carried on their ministry among the native peoples of this vast area, Honorat endeavoured to organize the religious life of the new settlers by creating parishes and building churches and schools. (https:\/\/www.omiworld.org\/lemma\/honorat-jean-baptiste\/)<\/em><\/h3>\n

An invitation to unite ourselves with our missionaries who respond generously in difficult situations – and to be missionaries ourselves in our immediate surroundings.<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cGo forth and set the world on fire.\u201d \u00a0(St. Ignatius of Loyola) The 63-year old Eugene de Mazenod certainly had his hands full as Bishop of the second-largest city of France and as Superior General of a rapidly expanding missionary … 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-5133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5133","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=5133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}