{"id":5151,"date":"2022-09-29T01:00:45","date_gmt":"2022-09-29T00:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5151"},"modified":"2022-09-29T00:46:31","modified_gmt":"2022-09-28T23:46:31","slug":"where-god-is-there-is-my-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5151","title":{"rendered":"WHERE GOD IS, THERE IS MY HOME"},"content":{"rendered":"

Where is home for me? Home is where the heart is – what is God’s place in my heart?<\/span><\/p>\n

As Superior General, Eugene needed to move Oblates to different places when the need arose. Approaching Father Jean Joseph Magnan about a possible move, Eugene was edified by his response.<\/h3>\n

Letter from Fr. Magnan. He expresses the sentiments of a perfect religious: Ubi Deus, ibi patria <\/strong><\/em>[ed Where God is, there is my country], he says to me, so as to put his will into my hands.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

Eugene de Mazenod\u2019s Diary, 24 May 1845, EO XXI<\/h3>\n

Putting these words into practice, Eugene gives him a new mission:<\/h3>\n

I am obliged to call you to the Major Seminary of Marseilles to be professor of moral theology. I am telling you this under secret. When I get to Lumi\u00e8res, I will spell out for you which treatises you will have to teach at the outset. You will also be responsible for the formation of the seminarians in piety and the knowledge of their duties, that is to say, to assist at the spiritual lectures and to comment during the last eight or ten minutes. Those are the functions of what is called the spiritual director. You may begin your groundwork and to prepare your materials.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

Letter to Fr Jean Joseph Magnan, 13 June 1845, EO X n 874<\/em><\/h3>\n

Where there is God, there is my country – the sentiment of a true missionary. In other words, wherever God is present, that is my home.<\/h3>\n

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