{"id":5567,"date":"2023-09-29T01:00:58","date_gmt":"2023-09-28T23:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5567"},"modified":"2023-09-19T23:59:45","modified_gmt":"2023-09-19T21:59:45","slug":"unprepared-preaching-compromises-the-lords-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5567","title":{"rendered":"UNPREPARED PREACHING COMPROMISES THE LORD’S WORK"},"content":{"rendered":"

You tell me good things about Father Rey. I am glad to hear that, but do not lose sight of the fact that he must be helped through particular care and supervision. Insist that he devote himself to the composition of his sermons. Require that each day he consecrate at least a few hours to his work. He would readily be content with that unprepared speech which so compromises the Lord\u2019s work…<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

The Missionaries were founded to be preachers of the Gospel, and for this reason Eugene insisted on adequate sermon preparation and was intolerant of anything below standard. Writing to Father Dassy, who was the superior of a group of young Oblates, he stresses this point.<\/h3>\n

Do not allow them to entertain the destructive principle that we must preach spontaneously; that is allowable to a man of talent and experience like our good Father Hermitte, but the exception must not be the rule. Have Father Pulicani also work in the same. The juniors must not take up all his time, he should reserve part of it to write out his instructions. What I have said against the abundance system also applies to Father Chauliac; be merciless on this point. Let them be alerted in time, and let them prepare.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

Letter to Father Louis Dassy, in France, 14 August 1847, EO X n 937<\/em><\/h3>\n

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

How important our ministry of preaching is, and what a responsibility we have to our people to give them of our best! As important as the preparation of a text is, Eugene always stressed that what is paramount is our preaching through the witness of the quality of our lives. Through our baptism, all of us members of the Mazenodian Family (and not just the priests and brothers) are evangelizers in action and example.<\/h3>\n

“It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.”\u00a0\u00a0 (Francis of Assisi)<\/h3>\n

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