{"id":5284,"date":"2022-11-04T01:00:44","date_gmt":"2022-11-04T00:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5284"},"modified":"2022-11-02T17:35:48","modified_gmt":"2022-11-02T16:35:48","slug":"if-vocations-are-rare-let-us-at-least-train-satisfactory-members","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5284","title":{"rendered":"IF VOCATIONS ARE RARE, LET US AT LEAST TRAIN SATISFACTORY MEMBERS"},"content":{"rendered":"

“The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.” (Sydney J. Harris)<\/span><\/h3>\n

I have at last been able to realize a project which I have much to heart and which should have happy consequences for the Congregation. It is to send all our young Fathers back to study. To this end I have not recoiled from almost emptying all our houses. I have brought them all together at Parm\u00e9nie under the immediate direction of Father Vincens who is appointed to direct their studies and make them work. They have been at it since the beginning of the month. If vocations are rare, let us at least train satisfactory members.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

Letter to Eugene Guigues in Canada, 30 July 1846, EO I n 67<\/em><\/h3>\n

This decision had been made at a meeting of Superior General, Eugene de Mazenod and his General Council.<\/h3>\n

The following is the text of the minutes of the council on April 4, 1846:<\/h3>\n

“For a long time now, the need has been felt in the Congregation not to leave to their own resources the newly ordained fathers who are sent to the various houses to begin the exercise of the holy ministry. It is indispensable for them to receive some guidance not only in the difficult cases that arise in the confessional and in the administration of the other sacraments, but also in preaching, that is to say, in the way they compose and deliver their sermons.”<\/em><\/h3>\n

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The need for study, reflection and renewal in our busy lives is essential. Without this, the danger is that our horizon becomes a comfortable introspective mirror, instead of being a window open to the whole world.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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