{"id":5847,"date":"2024-09-16T01:00:43","date_gmt":"2024-09-15T23:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5847"},"modified":"2024-09-14T21:33:16","modified_gmt":"2024-09-14T19:33:16","slug":"we-risked-compromising-their-salvation-and-that-of-the-souls-they-do-not-know-how-to-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5847","title":{"rendered":"WE RISKED COMPROMISING THEIR SALVATION AND THAT OF THE SOULS THEY DO NOT KNOW HOW TO GUIDE"},"content":{"rendered":"

As the Canadian missions were increasing, so was the demand for Oblate missionaries. Eugene had agreed to send scholastics to Canada to fulfil this need, but on condition that they finish their studies in Canada. The demands of the missions did not allow this to happen, and so the missionaries were not properly prepared nor spiritually mature enough. Eugene was thus forced to make a decision to stop this practice.<\/h3>\n

I cannot in conscience approve the policy you follow in Canada of conferring Orders in advance on youngsters lacking knowledge and who will suffer all their lives from this deficiency in education. So I have decided to send no more members other than those who have finished their studies and who have spent sufficient time within our houses to form themselves in the practice of religious virtues.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

I prefer a thousand times to make you wait rather than have you reproach me with not having provided for the needs of our members and with having risked compromising their salvation and that of the souls they do not know how to guide, as well as the reputation of the Congregation. When I consented to send you, at your request, raw Oblate recruits, it was because I was firmly persuaded that you would train them both in ecclesiastical knowledge as well as in piety.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

Letter to Bp Bruno Guigues in Ottawa, 25 March 1849, EO I n 114<\/em><\/h3>\n

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

The generosity of these young men led them to plunge into a demanding ministry without the necessary skills. It was their salvation and that of others that was in danger.<\/h3>\n

For us, too, our salvation can be fragile is we do not nourish our faith through reading, reflection and prayer.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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