{"id":5307,"date":"2022-11-25T01:00:20","date_gmt":"2022-11-25T00:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5307"},"modified":"2022-11-26T02:21:16","modified_gmt":"2022-11-26T01:21:16","slug":"give-me-a-personal-account-of-all-your-members-in-the-mission-of-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5307","title":{"rendered":"GIVE ME A PERSONAL ACCOUNT OF ALL YOUR MEMBERS IN THE MISSION OF AMERICA"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Let us all remember this: one cannot proclaim the Gospel of Jesus without the tangible witness of one’s life.” (Pope Francis)<\/span><\/h3>\n

As Superior General, Eugene was obliged to make decisions regarding the welfare of the Oblates outside of France, but he needed information to be able to do this. In the 19th century, letters between Canada and France took several months to arrive and Eugene found this frustrating. For this reason he insisted that all local superiors write to him every three months, and the others write once a year as a minimum. From the Superior of the whole Canadian mission, Fr Guigues, Eugene expected a more frequent and detailed communication, as he indicated in this letter:<\/h3>\n

Please greet for me affectionately Father Allard whose letter I at last received. It will give me pleasure if, in one of your first letters, you give me a personal account of all your members in the mission of America. Speak to me of the progress they are making in virtue, of the efforts they make to remove from their characters whatever may be defective, of their regularity and obedience, of their unity, of their capacity for different ministries, etc. This account should reach me at least once a year. So much for persons of whom not one is to be excepted.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

You will do the same for the state of each house and each mission. Should this second report be too much for you to write, you can dictate it to Father Allard. Exactitude, precision, absence of exaggeration, confidence, simplicity, such I expect from you for my guidance.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

Letter to Fr Eugene Guigues in Canada, 14 May 1846, EO I n 62.<\/em><\/h3>\n

What is of interest here is that Eugene’s main concern was not what the Oblates were doing as missionaries, but the quality of their lives: their being in order to do. He was convinced that they achieved more through witness than words.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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