{"id":5515,"date":"2023-08-07T01:00:14","date_gmt":"2023-08-06T23:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5515"},"modified":"2023-08-04T01:54:38","modified_gmt":"2023-08-03T23:54:38","slug":"it-will-be-a-life-of-loneliness-and-of-every-kind-of-danger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5515","title":{"rendered":"IT WILL BE A LIFE OF LONELINESS AND OF EVERY KIND OF DANGER"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Fr. Guigues, receiving the instruction from Eugene to send two Oblates to the new mission, responded: &#8220;I consider this foundation imprudent and consequently contrary to God\u2019s will. We are two thousand miles from Red River; . . . communication is extremely difficult; for the subjects, it will be a life of loneliness and of every kind of danger. &#8221; (Quoted in Leflon II p 164)<\/h3>\n<h3>Bishop de Mazenod was not impressed that his orders had not been carried out, and responded with a strongly-worded letter which ended with:<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><em><strong>To settle this matter once and for all, I order you to write to Bishop Provencher and tell him that we are granting the request he made on behalf of his vicariate apostolic and that you have two missionaries to put at his disposal for that purpose.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Letter to Fr. Bruno Guigues, local superior in Canada, 24 May 1845, EO I n 54<\/em><\/h3>\n<h3>Fr. Guigues had no choice but to carry out the order and send the two men chosen by Eugene: Fr Pierre Aubert and a Canadian scholastic Alexandre-Antonin Tach\u00e9, who had not yet been ordained.<\/h3>\n<h3><strong>REFLECTION<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h3>&#8220;You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.&#8221; \u00a0 (Henry Drummond)<\/h3>\n<h3>A good summary of the life of St Eugene. How true is it of your life?<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. Guigues, receiving the instruction from Eugene to send two Oblates to the new mission, responded: &#8220;I consider this foundation imprudent and consequently contrary to God\u2019s will. We are two thousand miles from Red River; . . . communication is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5515\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5515\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}