{"id":5565,"date":"2023-09-27T01:00:03","date_gmt":"2023-09-26T23:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5565"},"modified":"2023-09-19T22:01:27","modified_gmt":"2023-09-19T20:01:27","slug":"full-of-zeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5565","title":{"rendered":"FULL OF ZEAL"},"content":{"rendered":"

The more new missions were opening up, the more Eugene had to look for missionaries to send. Among the many recruits that Fr Leonard had brought in, were some who were already ordained diocesan priests. In order to become Oblates they had to do a full year of canonical novitiate. Eugene wrote to the Cardinal Prefect in Rome to try to get two of these to the missions sooner.<\/h3>\n

It is a matter of granting to two priest novices of the Congregation, of which our immortal protector, benefactor and father Leo XII made me the Superior, a dispensation of several months of novitiate in order to canonically make religious profession before the year required by the decrees. There is an urgent and legitimate reason for this dispensation.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

The “urgent and legitimate reason” shows how quickly the missions were spreading:<\/h3>\n

The Congregation of Oblates of Mary Immaculate is evangelizing the indigenous people along the banks of the Saint Lawrence, Saint Maurice, Ottawa and Saguenay Rivers; they are also preaching the gospel to those of Abitibi and Temiscaming. They have just penetrated into Oregon, are already on the Red River, and are planning to head toward the Hudson Bay on the Moose River. Your Eminence is quite aware that we need men for all these missions. It is indispensable that I send at least four of them without delay, but two who are most apt for this difficult ministry have not completed their novitiate year; they are however sufficiently tested and full of holy zeal for their sublime vocation. I therefore beg Your Eminence to obtain from the Sovereign Pontiff the dispensation that I am requesting in the enclosed form.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

Letter to Cardinal Orioli, Prefect of the Congregation of Bishops and Regulars in Rome, 30 July 1847, EO XIII n 114<\/em><\/h3>\n

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

It is moving to read about the enthusiasm of these pioneer missionaries who left their countries of origin knowing that they would probably never see their families and country again. Like Eugene they were set on fire by the awareness of the transforming power of God’s love and mercy – and they wanted to share this with those who had never known the salvation offered by knowing Jesus Christ.<\/h3>\n

Today, circumstances have changed, but the fire of Eugene still burns and impels us to be missionaries wherever we find ourselves according to our state of life, lay or religious.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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