{"id":5245,"date":"2022-10-10T01:00:06","date_gmt":"2022-10-10T00:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5245"},"modified":"2022-10-06T20:58:12","modified_gmt":"2022-10-06T19:58:12","slug":"missions-your-sincere-wish-to-provide-for-their-existence-and-contribute-to-their-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5245","title":{"rendered":"MISSIONS: YOUR SINCERE WISH TO PROVIDE FOR THEIR EXISTENCE AND CONTRIBUTE TO THEIR DEVELOPMENT"},"content":{"rendered":"

“True charity is the desire to be useful to others with no thought of recompense.” (Emanuel Swedenborg)<\/span><\/h3>\n

As generous and zealous as the Oblates were, this was not sufficient for the success of their overseas evangelization. They needed money with which to finance their work among the poor and most abandoned. It is here that the Missionary Society for the Propagation of the Faith came in with generous subsidies. The letters that Eugene regularly wrote to them are full of gratitude as well as providing interesting details about the progress of the missions.<\/h3>\n

I wish to thank you as well, Gentlemen, for the kind reception reserved to our requests for assistance on behalf of our missions in America, and for including them in the annual distribution of subsidies by the Missionary Society whose executive administration is entrusted to your care. In my eyes, this represents further proof of the interest you harbor for the missions of our Congregation in foreign countries and your sincere wish to provide for their existence and contribute to their development.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

Letter to the Central Council of Southern France for the Missionary Society of the Propagation of the Faith, 27 October 1845, EO V n 96<\/em><\/h3>\n

Today we continue to rely with gratitude on the generosity of our Mazenodian Family in the mission of evangelization<\/h3>\n

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