{"id":5800,"date":"2024-07-10T01:00:55","date_gmt":"2024-07-09T23:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5800"},"modified":"2024-07-09T21:21:08","modified_gmt":"2024-07-09T19:21:08","slug":"my-dear-son-whom-i-received-so-young-into-our-family-whom-i-have-seen-grow-in-age-in-knowledge-and-in-virtue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5800","title":{"rendered":"MY DEAR SON, WHOM I RECEIVED SO YOUNG INTO OUR FAMILY, WHOM I HAVE SEEN GROW IN AGE, IN KNOWLEDGE AND IN VIRTUE"},"content":{"rendered":"

The father of the Oblate family recalled with emotion his 27 years of association with the newly-orained Bishop Bruno Guigues since his admission to the novitiate in 1821.<\/h3>\n

Oh, how I would have pressed you to my heart, my dear son, whom I received so young into our family, whom I have seen grow in age, in knowledge and in virtue, whom I have chosen to be my “other ego”, in whom I have put all my confidence to govern a considerable portion of this family that I have sent so far from me to serve the Church, the glory of God and the salvation of souls. I was thus preparing, without knowing, your accession to the sublime dignity to which the will of God has called you.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

Being a Bishop changed nothing of his Oblate roots and identity. Eugene encourages him to stay faithful to all that has helped him as a religious now that he is a successor of the apostles.<\/h3>\n

Fear nothing, dear friend; a missionary Bishop who wishes to be faithful to his vocation and keep the spirit thereof and even, inasmuch as possible, the life-giving practices which were so useful to him in the course of his apostolic life, this Bishop is in possession of the “bonum opus” [ed. the good work] which he has not desired but from which he will derive all the benefit that the first bishops of the Church knew how to profit from, those to whom the Apostle Paul gave his own example and counsels.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

Letter to Bishop Guigues in Bytown, 25 July 1848, EO 1 n. 99<\/em><\/h3>\n

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

“Spiritual identity means we are not what we do or what people say about us. And we are not what we have. We are the beloved daughters and sons of God. (Henri Nouwen)<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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