{"id":5134,"date":"2022-09-13T02:00:45","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T00:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5134"},"modified":"2022-07-22T01:54:25","modified_gmt":"2022-07-21T23:54:25","slug":"the-ministry-of-the-oblate-superior-in-the-saguenay-rapidly-became-a-social-commitment-a-struggle-against-exploitation-and-poverty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5134","title":{"rendered":"THE MINISTRY OF THE OBLATE SUPERIOR IN THE SAGUENAY RAPIDLY BECAME A SOCIAL COMMITMENT, A STRUGGLE AGAINST EXPLOITATION AND POVERTY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">&#8220;Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other&#8217;s welfare, social justice can never be attained.&#8221;\u00a0Helen Keller<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Under Father Honorat, the new Oblate mission in Saguenay took on a particular character.<\/h3>\n<h3>Norman S\u00e9guin writes:<\/h3>\n<h3><em>Honorat endeavoured to organize the religious life of the new settlers by creating parishes and building churches and schools.<\/em><\/h3>\n<h3><em>The society that was developing in Saguenay area with a mixture of agriculture and timber as its base had a strong effect on Honorat. Because of its monopoly of lumbering the Price Company was ensured control of the region. The population, poor and still sparse, was under the domination of Peter McLeod, partner of William Price and chief of operations in the region. McLeod, an unbending advocate of Protestantism, represented in Honorat\u2019s eyes a grave threat to the Catholics there. Moreover, to him McLeod symbolized economic dictatorship, for not only did the company pay employees with vouchers redeemable in goods in its stores, but it also resorted to intimidation to enslave the population. The ministry of the Oblate superior in the Saguenay rapidly became a social commitment, a struggle against exploitation and poverty. (https:\/\/www.omiworld.org\/lemma\/honorat-jean-baptiste\/)<\/em><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other&#8217;s welfare, social justice can never be attained.&#8221;\u00a0Helen Keller Under Father Honorat, the new Oblate mission in Saguenay took on a particular character. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5134\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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-5134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5134","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=5134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}