{"id":5267,"date":"2022-10-24T01:01:04","date_gmt":"2022-10-24T00:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5267"},"modified":"2022-10-24T01:22:04","modified_gmt":"2022-10-24T00:22:04","slug":"he-was-one-of-the-pillars-of-the-congregation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5267","title":{"rendered":"HE WAS ONE OF THE PILLARS OF THE CONGREGATION"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">&#8220;What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.&#8221; Albert Pike<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In his Diary, Bishop Eugene grieves at the receipt of the shocking news of the death of one his most trusted Oblates, Father No\u00ebl Francois Moreau. He died suddenly in Corsica where he had been the Rector of the Major Seminary.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><em><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5268\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Moreau.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/>Returning to my place, a thunderbolt! A letter from Fr. Lagier gave me the harsh news of the death of our good and venerable Fr. Moreau. I must bow my face low to the ground and profoundly meditate on the word of Sunday prayer: Pater noster, fiat voluntas tua. This loss is irreparable. The sadness which I experience is at its peak. He was one of the pillars of the congregation.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><em><strong>His maturity of age (he was born on August 24, 1794), his experience, his application to study, independently of his great virtues, had made him a very distinguished subject. As well, the Bishop and the clergy of Ajaccio gave great importance to him&#8230;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><em><strong>He died as he had lived, a holy religious. During the night which had preceded his blessed passing, he wanted the portrait of our venerable Fr. Albini to be placed in front of him. He invoked him fervently, considered himself fortunate to have been his friend and recommended himself to his prayers. During the short delirium which preceded his death, he just prayed and readily repeated the names of Jesus, Mary and Joseph, which were suggested to him from time to time.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Eugene de Mazenod\u2019s Diary, 2 February 1846, EO XXI<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Fr. Yvon Beaudoin&#8217;s article on Fr. Moreau&#8217;s life and missionary achievements in the Historical Dictionary is worth reading to experience something of Oblate life during the time of the Founder: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omiworld.org\/lemma\/moreau-noel-francois\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.omiworld.org\/lemma\/moreau-noel-francois\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.&#8221; Albert Pike In his Diary, Bishop Eugene grieves at the receipt of the shocking news of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5267\">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-5267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5267","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=5267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}