{"id":5674,"date":"2024-01-25T06:00:51","date_gmt":"2024-01-25T05:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5674"},"modified":"2024-01-25T01:40:13","modified_gmt":"2024-01-25T00:40:13","slug":"beginning-of-the-aix-en-provence-community-january-25-1816","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5674","title":{"rendered":"BEGINNING OF THE AIX-EN-PROVENCE COMMUNITY, JANUARY 25, 1816"},"content":{"rendered":"

The request for authorization sent to the Capitular Vicars General of Aix is dated January 25th 1816. It was signed by five Missionaries of Provence: de Mazenod, Tempier, Icard, Mie and Deblieu. That day de Mazenod, Tempier, and perhaps Icard, took definitive possession of the rooms purchased in the ancient Carmel of Aix.
\nEver since then January 25 has become the day when Oblates celebrate the birth of their Congregation. We should call this day more properly: The beginning of community life.<\/h3>\n

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The Foundation Room as it is today<\/p><\/div>\n

\nConcerning that January 25 we have a writing that is especially dear to all Oblates, the letter that St. Eugene wrote on January 24, 1831, to the novice master, Fr. Mille:
\n\u201cTomorrow, I celebrate the anniversary of the day, sixteen years ago, I left my mother\u2019s house to go and set up house at the Mission. Father Tempier had taken possession of it some days before. Our lodging had none of the splendour of the mansion at Billens, and whatever deprivations you may be subject to, ours were greater still.<\/h3>\n
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The corridor as it has been reconstructed today<\/p><\/div>\n

My camp bed was placed in the small passageway which leads to the library: it was then a large room used as a bedroom for Father Tempier and for one other whose name we no longer mention amongst us. It was also our community room.
\nOne lamp was all our lighting and, when it was time for bed, it was placed in the doorway to give light to all three of us. The table that adorned our refectory was one plank laid alongside another, on top of two old barrels.<\/h3>\n

\nWe have never enjoyed the blessing of such poverty since the time we took the vow. Without question, it was a foreshadowing of the state of perfection that we now live so imperfectly\u2026. I assure you we lost none of our merriment; on the contrary, as this new way of life was in quite striking contrast with that we had just left, we often found ourselves having a hearty laugh over it. I owed this tribute to the memory of our first day of common life. How happy I would be to live it now with you!\u201d (To Father Mille, January 24, 1831, Oblate Writings, 8, p. 11)<\/h3>\n

With gratitude to the OMIWORLD site<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The request for authorization sent to the Capitular Vicars General of Aix is dated January 25th 1816. It was signed by five Missionaries of Provence: de Mazenod, Tempier, Icard, Mie and Deblieu. That day de Mazenod, Tempier, and perhaps Icard, … Continue reading →<\/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-5674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5674","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=5674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5674\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}