{"id":5306,"date":"2022-11-24T01:00:26","date_gmt":"2022-11-24T00:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5306"},"modified":"2022-11-11T23:55:21","modified_gmt":"2022-11-11T22:55:21","slug":"i-cannot-consent-that-our-fathers-go-alone-into-any-kind-of-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5306","title":{"rendered":"I CANNOT CONSENT THAT OUR FATHERS GO ALONE INTO ANY KIND OF MISSION"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Challenges exist to be overcome! Let us be realists, but without losing our joy, our boldness and our hope-filled commitment. Let us not allow ourselves to be robbed of missionary vigour!” (Pope Francis)<\/span><\/h3>\n

Eugene had imagined that Fathers Aubert and the newly-ordained Tach\u00e9 would be living in community and ministering from there. Eugene was alarmed to learn that this would not be the case:<\/h3>\n

What Father Allard tells me about the Red River leaves me no choice but to be alarmed. Our two Fathers, he tells me, are going to be separated for a year. But it is not my intention that this be so. I cannot consent that our Fathers go alone into any kind of mission. Any kind of good (envisaged) should be dependent on that (policy). Explain this, I beg you, to their Lordships the Bishops and take this to be the rule of your own administration.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

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

The missionary challenges of thousands of people who had not been evangelized made this impossible, as Yvon Beaudoin narrates.<\/h3>\n

Father Tach\u00e9 spent part of the winter in Saint-Boniface and the rest in Baie-Saint-Paul where he studied the rudiments of the Saulteaux language. On July 8, 1846, he left in the company of the diocesan priest, Father Lafl\u00e8che, to found a mission at \u00cele-\u00e0-la-Crosse. They spent the winter in the Hudson Bay Company station and studied Cree. Then Father Lafl\u00e8che worked among the Indians near the trading post and Father Tach\u00e9, throughout the summers of 1847, 1848, 1849 and 1850, made long journeys to Lake Caribou and Lake Athabaska. On March 25, 1847, Bishop de Mazenod wrote to Father Guigues: \u201cI sigh to think of such a young priest, having just left novitiate and being separated by such a great distance from our confreres.\u201d (https:\/\/www.omiworld.org\/lemma\/tache-bishop-alexandre\/<\/a>)<\/h3>\n

Eugene’s alarm was to be multiplied and constantly repeated for the rest of his life: apostolic community and missionary zeal were two essential aspects of his charism – but how to maintain a balance in these essentials when the need for evangelization of people was so pressing?<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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