{"id":5491,"date":"2023-07-11T01:00:16","date_gmt":"2023-07-10T23:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5491"},"modified":"2023-07-02T22:49:03","modified_gmt":"2023-07-02T20:49:03","slug":"the-gift-of-awakening-missionary-zeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5491","title":{"rendered":"THE GIFT OF AWAKENING MISSIONARY ZEAL"},"content":{"rendered":"

A few weeks after the arrival of Fr Leonard on his vocational recruitment drive in France, Eugene wrote to Fr Pierre Aubert in Oregon:<\/h3>\n

Father Leonard was sent to Europe simply to make recruits. Your America is expanding so much that there is no way of satisfying its needs, and yet we do not dare refuse to respond to the requests made to us from all sides. That is why Father Guigues has risked sending our Father Leonard across the seas so that he might use all his gift for speaking, accompanied by the grace of God, to persuade the young seminarians to embrace the religious state with the idea of devoting themselves to the missions to the unbelievers.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

He has not yet let me know if he has obtained any results from his efforts. If he is successful, you must know, my dear friend, that we will reserve some for your mission, for you are constantly present in my mind and in my heart.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

Letter to Fr. Pierre Aubert in Oregon, 3 February 1847, EO I n 81<\/em><\/h3>\n

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The Oblate missionary successes in North America, the British Isles and France created new horizons and infinite possibilities, but progress was hampered by lack of personnel – hence the need for urgent vocational recruitment of young men.<\/h3>\n

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

“The power of youth is the common wealth for the entire world. The faces of young people are the faces of our past, our present and our future. No segment in the society can match with the power, idealism, enthusiasm and courage of the young people.”<\/h3>\n

Kailash Satyarthi<\/h3>\n

May this continue to be true for all sectors of our Mazenodian Family today.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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