{"id":5510,"date":"2023-08-01T01:00:44","date_gmt":"2023-07-31T23:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5510"},"modified":"2023-07-27T23:27:12","modified_gmt":"2023-07-27T21:27:12","slug":"attached-to-the-family-which-gave-him-birth-which-has-nurtured-him-in-her-bosom-since-childhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5510","title":{"rendered":"ATTACHED TO THE FAMILY WHICH GAVE HIM BIRTH, WHICH HAS NURTURED HIM IN HER BOSOM SINCE CHILDHOOD"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eugene concluded the correspondence on the contentious issue of the appointment of Fr. Guigues to establish a diocese in Bytown with fatherly words of encouragement. He begins by recalling how he had known him since his childhood:<\/h3>\n

[The Church and the Congregation] should derive great advantages from this measure were the one elected to be as I have known him, that is to say, eminently attached to the family which gave him birth, which has nurtured him in her bosom since childhood, which loves and esteems him as one of her most distinguished members, which counts on him… as she counts on the most devoted of her children. If I had not had unlimited confidence in you, I would certainly not have consented to allow you to be placed in a position which would furnish to weak and ordinary members plausible pretexts for some form of forsaking. But it being you, the thought would never have come to me and I repulsed it as a horrible injustice when it was insinuated in the eccentricities of a depressing correspondence.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

In this circumstance, it is God who has done everything. In your soul you have enough resourcefulness to make up what may be lacking at the moment. I see in your promotion a benevolent disposition of Providence towards our Congregation which is at present exposed to some vexations on the part of some bishops in Canada.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

Resign yourself then, my dear son, to the designs of Providence and think of nothing more than to prepare yourself in a holy manner to receive the fullness of priesthood by the imposition of hands of the happy bishop of whom I envy the privilege which might have been reserved to me, were we not separated from one another by 2000 leagues.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

Letter to Fr. Bruno Guigues in Canada, 7 June 1847, EO I n 84<\/em><\/h3>\n

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

We see in this letter Eugene’s heart of a father and his desire that his missionaries be a united family. Bruno Guigues had proved himself a responsible and devoted member of this family and the future would show that this would never change. I believe that Eugene continues to look on all the members of his Mazenodian Family, vowed and lay, with the same paternal affection and intercession for our welfare.<\/h3>\n

“The greatest gift of family life is to be intimately acquainted with people you might never even introduce yourself to, had life not done it for you.” – Kendall Hailey<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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