{"id":5490,"date":"2023-07-10T01:00:05","date_gmt":"2023-07-09T23:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5490"},"modified":"2023-07-02T22:16:28","modified_gmt":"2023-07-02T20:16:28","slug":"a-livewire-joins-the-missionary-oblates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5490","title":{"rendered":"A LIVEWIRE JOINS THE MISSIONARY OBLATES"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jean-Claude L\u00e9onard Baveux was born in France in 1796, and joined the Sulpicians and was ordained to the priesthood in 1828. He was sent to Canada\u00a0 where he did parish work in Montreal and in the Iroquois Indian reserve of Oka. When the Oblates arrived in Canada on December 2, 1841, Father L\u00e9onard got to know them and asked to join them in order to preach parish missions as he had enjoyed doing before. He was accepted and made his oblation on August 2, 1843 and immediately became a zealous and life-giving team member in many retreats and parish missions preached by the Oblates.<\/h3>\n

The Oblates in Canada were incessantly pestering Eugene de Mazenod to send them priests and brothers. He, however, was not in a position to send them the missionaries they requested because the needs were equally great in the communities and the works in France and England.<\/h3>\n

Father L\u00e9onard was aware of this situation and, it seems that he himself was the one who suggested that he go on a recruiting tour in France and Belgium. He was sent to Europe and began his energetic vocational drive in the diocesan seminaries from the end of December 1846 to March of 1848.<\/h3>\n

Eugene wrote to him some weeks after he had begun his energetic recruiting campaign:<\/h3>\n

I will not let this letter leave, my dear Father Leonard, without expressing a little word of friendship to you. You are too stingy with your letters, my dear friend, we cannot follow you on your energetic race. However, you cannot doubt the interest that your beautiful mission inspires in us. Please take care of your health even when you race as you do.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

Letter to Fr. L\u00e9onard Baveux, in France, 23 January 1847. EO X n 921<\/em><\/h3>\n

REFLECTION<\/strong><\/h3>\n

“Missionary zeal does not grow out of intellectual beliefs, nor out of theological arguments, but out of love.<\/h3>\n

If I do not love a person I am not moved to help him by proofs that he is in need; if I do love him, I wait for no proof of a special need to urge me to help him.”<\/h3>\n

Roland Allen<\/h3>\n

May our love for others be translated into zeal for their good.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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