{"id":5709,"date":"2024-02-28T01:00:45","date_gmt":"2024-02-28T00:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5709"},"modified":"2024-02-26T23:45:28","modified_gmt":"2024-02-26T22:45:28","slug":"a-void-which-must-be-filled-as-soon-as-possible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5709","title":{"rendered":"A VOID WHICH MUST BE FILLED AS SOON AS POSSIBLE"},"content":{"rendered":"

Zeal to respond to the cry of the poor and most abandoned by preaching the Gospel needed Missionaries. In England, the sudden death of the 35 year-old Fr Perron led to a gap that had to be filled urgently.<\/h3>\n

Alas! I hasten to ordain dear Brother Grey because I must immediately send him to England where the death of good Father Perron – which I knew to be imminent but the news of which has reached me since I took up my pen to write you – has made a void which must be filled as soon as possible.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

Letter to Fr Ambroise Vincens at N.-D. de L\u2019Osier, France, 27 February 1848, EO X n 969<\/em><\/h3>\n

25 year-old Irish scholastic, John Grey, was ordained to the priesthood two weeks later and received his obedience for Everingham in Yorkshire. Later he was to work in Manchester.<\/h3>\n

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

Responding to the need to evangelize the most abandoned with adequate personnel was a constant challenge for Eugene – as it continues to be today. In recent decades God has led us to understand that it is not only the priests and religious who are the evangelizers, but all the People of God. Each of us is a Gospel-bearer in our everyday life – each is invited to respond quietly and generously in our daily interactions and activities.<\/h3>\n

“But how are they to call on One in whom they have not believed?[ And how are they to believe in One of whom they have never heard? And how are they to hear without someone to proclaim Him? And how are they to proclaim Him unless they are sent? As it is written, ‘How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news’!<\/em>\u201d<\/h3>\n

Romans 10: 14-15<\/h3>\n

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