{"id":5713,"date":"2024-03-05T01:00:40","date_gmt":"2024-03-05T00:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5713"},"modified":"2024-03-03T20:37:19","modified_gmt":"2024-03-03T19:37:19","slug":"the-good-father-perron-has-welded-them-together-by-his-holy-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5713","title":{"rendered":"THE GOOD FATHER PERRON HAS WELDED THEM TOGETHER BY HIS HOLY DEATH"},"content":{"rendered":"

After only seven years of a growing Oblate presence in England, the results were evident and promised well for the future. As shocked as the Congregation had been at the untimely death of Fr Perron, Eugene saw his influence in the closeness of the Oblate community in heaven which interceded for the missionaries.<\/h3>\n

Our missions in England are so prosperous that had the revolution not occurred, I would have gone to visit them this year. The good Father Perron has welded them together by his holy death.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

They are served just now by Frs. Daly, Tamburini, Naughten, Cooke, Noble, Grey, Walsh, Bradshaw and Hickey. You should know several of these good Fathers as well as Bro. Cauvin whom I am sending this very day to America with four others who entered novitiate after your departure.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

Letter to Fr Henri Faraud, in Canada, 10 May 1848, EO I n 95<\/em><\/h3>\n

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

Eugene’s confidence in God’s providence gave him the courage to dare the seemingly impossible for the “glory of God, the good of the Church, and the salvation of souls”. Eight of the nine Oblates were local vocations.<\/h3>\n

“Christ wants not nibblers of the possible, but grabbers of the impossible.” (C.T. Studd)<\/h3>\n

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