{"id":5832,"date":"2024-08-28T01:00:19","date_gmt":"2024-08-27T23:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5832"},"modified":"2024-08-26T03:11:22","modified_gmt":"2024-08-26T01:11:22","slug":"i-have-incurred-these-insults-by-having-wished-to-spread-the-knowledge-of-jesus-christ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5832","title":{"rendered":"I HAVE INCURRED THESE INSULTS BY HAVING WISHED TO SPREAD THE KNOWLEDGE OF JESUS CHRIST"},"content":{"rendered":"

The agreement made with the Bishop of Algiers was that the Oblates would live in community, minister to the abandoned Christian population and evangelize the Arab population. The Bishop, however, had gone against this agreement and did not want the chapel nor the missionary outreach to the Arab population. When Eugene wrote to him to remind him about this, the Bishop was angry.<\/h3>\n

Eugene recalled:<\/h3>\n

There is good reason to feel grieved when one sees a Bishop forget himself to that extent. I assure you that I am less hurt by the outrageous remarks he allowed himself to make against me than I am to see a man invested with this sacred ministry degrade himself to this degree. In the letter which angered him so much, I reminded him – it is true – of his own writings which constitute a veritable treatise, but I did it with the utmost politeness.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

Letter to Fr. Jean Viala in Blida, Algeria, 5 April 1849, EO IV (Africa) n. 8<\/em><\/h3>\n

In his diary, Eugene noted:<\/h3>\n

Fr. Viala has not told me all the nasty things that this poor bishop has said about me whose only fault has been to have reminded him of his commitments and to have been much too polite in the few letters I have written to him. But it is good to be humiliated, even though it happens as a result of such outrages.<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n

Eugene de Mazenod’s Diary, 2 April 1849, EO XXII<\/em><\/h3>\n

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

The only reason for Eugene\u2019s putting up with this situation was his missionary focus:<\/h3>\n

“Besides, I console myself with the thought that I have incurred these insults by having wished to spread the knowledge of Jesus Christ in a country to which many priests go only to acquire money.” \u00a0(Eugene de Mazenod’s Diary, 2 April 1849, EO XXII)<\/h3>\n

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