{"id":5455,"date":"2023-04-18T01:00:26","date_gmt":"2023-04-17T23:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5455"},"modified":"2023-04-17T03:27:41","modified_gmt":"2023-04-17T01:27:41","slug":"living-signs-of-gods-merciful-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5455","title":{"rendered":"LIVING SIGNS OF GOD\u2019S MERCIFUL LOVE"},"content":{"rendered":"

As Superior General of the Missionary Oblates, Eugene aimed to be in constant contact with the activities of the Oblates in France and in the missions outside. In France the main focus continued to be on the preaching parish missions. At the conclusion of a successful mission in St Maximin, where the relics of Mary Magdalene were believed to be, Eugene wrote:<\/h3>\n

The Saint-Maximin mission has had truly great results… I had brought the Bishop [ed. of Fr\u00e9jus] with me to witness the delightful spectacle that is the closing of a mission; he was truly astonished, it was something entirely new to him. Everything went as I had wished it for the honor of the Congregation.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

Eugene added:<\/h3>\n

unfortunately the quality of the priests who remain there will prevent them from doing anything to sustain the marvellous work that grace accomplished.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

Letter to Fr Hippolyte Court\u00e8s in Aix en Provence, 11 January 1847, EO X n 920<\/em><\/h3>\n

The mission approach of the Oblates was to spend some weeks in a parish to undertake a thorough renewal. The ongoing success however, depended on the local clergy to continue the renewal. It was the poor quality of some of the clergy that led Eugene to undertake the running of seminaries as one of the facets of our charism. (Just for the story: 12 years later St Maximin was entrusted to the Dominicans who brought new life to the center)<\/h3>\n

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“The People of God need to be guided by pastors whose lives are spent in service to the Gospel. I ask parish communities, associations and the many prayer groups present in the Church, not to yield to discouragement but to continue praying that the Lord will send workers to his harvest. May he give us priests enamoured of the Gospel, close to all their brothers and sisters, living signs of God\u2019s merciful love.”<\/em><\/h3>\n

Pope Francis (w2.vatican.va\/content\/francesco\/en.html)<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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