{"id":5820,"date":"2024-08-14T01:00:27","date_gmt":"2024-08-13T23:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5820"},"modified":"2024-08-12T01:41:16","modified_gmt":"2024-08-11T23:41:16","slug":"pittsburgh-let-us-take-care-of-each-mission-which-god-confides-to-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5820","title":{"rendered":"PITTSBURGH: LET US TAKE CARE OF EACH MISSION WHICH GOD CONFIDES TO US"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Bishop Michael O\u2019Connor of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania was passing through Marseilles at the end of 1843 and he asked Bishop de Mazenod for some Oblates for the major seminary in Pittsburgh. The Founder\u2019s reply was negative because of lack of personnel. Bishop O\u2019Connor renewed his request for priests and, on June 7, 1848, he met with Father Guigues in Longueuil to arrange details for an establishment of the Congregation in Pittsburgh. Fathers Adrien Telmon, Augustin Gaudet and the scholastic Eug\u00e8ne Cauvin were appointed to staff the major seminary.” Y. Beaudoin https:\/\/www.omiworld.org\/lemma\/pittsburgh-pennsylvania-united-states-1848-1849\/<\/a>)<\/h3>\n

Eugene wrote about this to Bp Guigues:<\/h3>\n

If we succeed at Pittsburgh, we will soon have other establishments in the United States. Already proposed is the seminary of Detroit. When we have a third establishment we will form a new Province; this is all the more desirable since already our Fathers in the United States have difficulty in receiving directions from Canada.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

The training of clergy in seminaries was one of the important missions of the Oblates, which explains why Pittsburgh was accepted as an Oblate mission. This first foothold in the eastern United States was so important that they were prepared to make an exception by taking on a parish as well.<\/h3>\n

It appears that the Bishop of Pittsburgh insists that our Fathers serve a church in the central part of the city where he wishes them to be placed. Let us not be particular and since Providence has permitted us to expand, let us take care of each mission which God confides to us.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

Letter to Bp. Bruno Guigues, 15 September 1848, EO I n 102.<\/em><\/h3>\n

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

“If you are seeking what God wants you to do with your time He will reveal it to you. Just don’t be surprised if it is the last thing you ever thought you would do.” S. Stephens.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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