{"id":5760,"date":"2024-04-23T01:00:47","date_gmt":"2024-04-22T23:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5760"},"modified":"2024-04-22T23:15:30","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T21:15:30","slug":"my-heart-of-a-father-was-full-of-love-for-you-who-are-doubly-my-son","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5760","title":{"rendered":"MY HEART OF A FATHER WAS FULL OF LOVE FOR YOU WHO ARE DOUBLY MY SON"},"content":{"rendered":"

Father Joseph Henri Lavigne had been at Notre Dame de L’Osier since his ordination six years earlier. He was an accomplished mission preacher in the area, but had problems with authority. He had written to Eugene to complain about his current superior. Eugene’s reply:<\/h3>\n

My dear friend, your letter hurts me deeply… It shows me a deep discontent against your superior, the good Father Vincens, whom everybody loves and esteems as he deserves. I readily forgave you the bit of ill-humor that you held against me because I had gone contrary to a few of your ideas; my heart of a father was full of love for you who are doubly my son. Your letter is an enigma for me.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

Letter to Fr Joseph Lavigne at ND de L’Osier, 27 October 1848, EO X n 991<\/em><\/h3>\n

\nREFLECTION<\/strong><\/p>\n

Eugene considered himself a father to each of his Oblates, and doubly so when he had been the ordaining bishop who conferred the priesthood on one of his sons. Eugene always considered the Congregation as a family characterised by the spirit of oblation which was expressed in charity and missionary zeal. The same ideal continues to be so today in the large Family gathered around his charism and spirituality.<\/p>\n

“Indeed, in Christ Jesus I fathered you through the Gospel.” (1 Corinthians 4:15)<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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