{"id":5297,"date":"2022-11-16T01:00:48","date_gmt":"2022-11-16T00:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5297"},"modified":"2022-11-11T22:28:42","modified_gmt":"2022-11-11T21:28:42","slug":"i-am-giving-you-a-veritable-gift-and-have-great-hope-in-him-for-the-good-of-the-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5297","title":{"rendered":"I AM GIVING YOU A VERITABLE GIFT, AND HAVE GREAT HOPE IN HIM FOR THE GOOD OF THE MISSION"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Good is never accomplished except at the cost of those who do it, truth never breaks through except through the sacrifice of those who spread it.” (St. John Henry Newman)<\/span><\/h3>\n

Eugene noted in his diary:<\/h3>\n

July 1st:\u00a0 Fr. Cooke, an Irish priest of our congregation whom I ordained the other day, came to take his leave of me. He will be leaving to go to England. He is an excellent religious, a capable man who will do much good in the mission. He made a first endeavor in his apostolate among the English who work at St-Henri.\u00a0 He made a good number of them return to the bosom of the Church.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

Eugene de Mazenod\u2019s Diary, 1 July 1846, EO XXI<\/em><\/h3>\n

Then in a letter to Mr Ambrose Phillipps, a patron of the Oblates in England, Eugene wrote:<\/h3>\n

Today, I am pleased, dear Sir, to give you new proof of the interest I take in your mission. I am putting two excellent religious of the Congregation of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate on their way to Gr\u00e2ce-Dieu. One is French, the other is Irish. Both are of great worth. Without speaking of the former, I will tell you that Father Cooke is a man distinguished for his learning and piety. He has just tested his zeal here among a colony of English people who came to work for the railways. This good Father Cook[e] succeeded in winning over those people, and had several of them return to the Church\u2019s bosom. You will be pleased with his modest and edifying bearing, his conversation, good judgment; in a word I am giving you a veritable gift, and have great hope in him for the good of the mission…<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

I will not close without thanking you for all the kindness that you always show to our Fathers.\u00a0 They are grateful for it as I am on my part. God willing, I hope to be able to go and thank you personally by word of mouth in paying you a short visit next year at Gr\u00e2ce-Dieu.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

Letter to M. Ambrose Lisle March Phillipps, Gr\u00e2ce-Dieu Manor, 2 July 1846, EO XIII n 107<\/em><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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