{"id":514,"date":"2011-02-09T05:00:59","date_gmt":"2011-02-09T03:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=514"},"modified":"2011-02-08T06:00:16","modified_gmt":"2011-02-08T04:00:16","slug":"parish-missions-the-opportunity-to-make-amends-to-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=514","title":{"rendered":"PARISH MISSIONS: RETURNING TO GOD WHO HAD BEEN FORGOTTEN AND ABUSED"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a ceremony called, the <em>Amende-Honorable<\/em>, the missionaries invited people to a reflection on conversion and reparation. In the presence of the Blessed Sacrament, they made an act of reparation for all the lack of respect and profanations against God during the abuses of the French Revolution and the desecration of countless churches.<\/p>\n<p>In relating the <em>Amende-Honorable<\/em> which took place in the mission of Aix, Marius Suzanne described the richly-adorned altar, on which the Blessed Sacrament was placed, and how a missionary in a loud voice cried out, \u201cLord, forgive these people.\u201d Everyone present responded aloud, \u201cforgive us, forgive us.\u201d In this emotion-charged atmosphere the hearts of many were touched, and he related how the numbers waiting for confession increased as a result. (M. SUZANNE, <em>Quelques lettres sur la mission d\u2019Aix<\/em>, p. 8-9.)<\/p>\n<p>This ceremony came into prominence during the time of Restoration after the Revolution, and Eugene referred to this action on several occasions. I quote one example of this, held with the members of his youth congregation where the leader of the youth, known as the Prefect, led it:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>While holding a candle he made aloud the act of reparation to the Blessed Sacrament for all the outrages received by our Lord, and those he still continues to receive from so many ungodly persons, heretics and bad Catholics. In particular he did it for any faults with which the members of the youth congregation reproach themselves and in whose name the Prefect pronounced this solemn act of reparation.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Diary of the Aix Christian Youth Congregation, 4 June 1815, O.W. XVI<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a ceremony called, the Amende-Honorable, the missionaries invited people to a reflection on conversion and reparation. In the presence of the Blessed Sacrament, they made an act of reparation for all the lack of respect and profanations against God &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=514\">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,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7,32],"class_list":["post-514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings","tag-conversion","tag-mission-preaching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514","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=514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}