{"id":5839,"date":"2024-09-05T01:00:31","date_gmt":"2024-09-04T23:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5839"},"modified":"2024-09-02T17:22:06","modified_gmt":"2024-09-02T15:22:06","slug":"they-live-poorly-and-are-happy-to-do-so","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5839","title":{"rendered":"THEY LIVE POORLY AND ARE HAPPY TO DO SO"},"content":{"rendered":"

Father Leonard Bavette, had conducted a successful visit in France to promote Oblate vocations (see: https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5497<\/a> and related entries) and Eugene knew him well. In his return to Canada he had been appointed to establish the first Oblate community in Montreal and the Parish of St Pierre. In his Diary, Eugene noted:<\/h3>\n

Letter from Fr. Leonard. He has settled down in Montreal with Fr. Bernard. They live poorly and are happy to do so. Their chapel is a wooden structure.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

Eugene de Mazenod’s Diary, 14 January 1849, EO XXII.<\/em><\/h3>\n

In a letter to him, Eugene wrote:<\/h3>\n

I congratulate you on being chosen as the first to establish our Congregation in Montreal. God will bless the beginnings all the more because they are somewhat marked by certain privations which, as you tell me, make you feel the value of holy poverty. This is the way we began when we laid the first foundations of the Society.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

Letter to Fr. Leonard Bavette in Montreal, 11 January 1849, EO I n 107<\/em><\/h3>\n

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

Voluntary poverty, as a religious choice, is a way of becoming one with those whose circumstances have immersed them in poverty. Mazenodian poverty aims at focusing on what is really important in our lives.<\/h3>\n

“Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.” (Isaac Newton)<\/h3>\n

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Father Leonard Bavette, had conducted a successful visit in France to promote Oblate vocations (see: https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5497 and related entries) and Eugene knew him well. In his return to Canada he had been appointed to establish the first Oblate community in … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}