{"id":5781,"date":"2024-06-19T01:00:55","date_gmt":"2024-06-18T23:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5781"},"modified":"2024-06-18T08:58:50","modified_gmt":"2024-06-18T06:58:50","slug":"let-us-be-proud-to-be-one-with-such-apostles-of-the-lord","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5781","title":{"rendered":"LET US BE PROUD TO BE ONE WITH SUCH APOSTLES OF THE LORD."},"content":{"rendered":"

Eugene invites all the Oblates to be inspired by the extreme personal sacrifices being made by the first four members of their religious family to go to western North America to teach people “the love of Jesus Christ.”<\/h3>\n

I have just received a letter from Father Ricard. It is dated August, and they had another 200 leagues to travel before reaching their destination. Our three missionaries, as well as the brother catechist, are well; but what a trip they have just made.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

Let none among us complain anymore of anything. for we have so generous an advanced contingent that makes conquests for Jesus Christ by so many sacrifices, and what merits do they not acquire in the eyes of the Lord and of the Church.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

Dear Brothers, how admirable they are! Let us pray much for them and let us be proud to be one with such apostles of the Lord.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

Letter to Fr Toussaint Dassy, 12 February 1848, EO X n 966<\/em><\/h3>\n

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

In his stirring visionary writing at the beginning of the Oblates, the Preface,<\/em> Eugene had described the spirit of Oblate missionaries:<\/h3>\n

” free from inordinate attachment to the world or to family, men filled with zeal, ready to sacrifice goods, talents, ease, self, even their life, for the love of Jesus Christ, the service of the Church, and the sanctification of their brethren. And thus, filled with unbounded confidence in God, they are ready to enter the combat, to fight, even unto death, for the greater glory of his most holy and sublime Name.<\/strong><\/em>“<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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