{"id":5864,"date":"2024-10-03T01:00:44","date_gmt":"2024-10-02T23:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5864"},"modified":"2024-10-01T17:18:51","modified_gmt":"2024-10-01T15:18:51","slug":"in-spirit-i-prostrate-myself-at-their-feet-i-bless-the-lord-for-having-chosen-them-as-instruments-of-his-glory-and-mercies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5864","title":{"rendered":"IN SPIRIT, I PROSTRATE MYSELF AT THEIR FEET; I BLESS THE LORD FOR HAVING CHOSEN THEM AS INSTRUMENTS OF HIS GLORY AND MERCIES"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you could read the letters I receive from Oregon, you would have shed tears with me over the sufferings and the privations that our dear Fathers are enduring in that mission. Their hands are calloused by the work they are obliged to do, to clear land they must cultivate to grow, not grain for bread which is lacking, but for potatoes to have something to live on. They would need two thousand francs to hire a helper, and they do not even have enough to pay the costs of the letters we send them. They are forced to cut down with their own hands trees that are hundreds of years old; they live among the tribes, always exposed to all kinds of dangers and even loss of life, I pity them, or rather I do not pity but admire them; in spirit I prostrate myself at their feet; I bless the Lord for having chosen them as instruments of his glory and mercies.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

Letter to Fr Ambroise Vincens at N. D. de L\u2019Osier, 12 October 1849, EO X n 1024<\/em><\/h3>\n

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

With Eugene, we too, bow in admiration at all that our Savior has done and continues to do through the cooperators he has called to His mission.<\/h3>\n

“Among our own people also the church sorely needs ministers in close touch with the ordinary life of the laity, living the life of ordinary people, sharing their difficulties and understanding their trials by close personal experience.” (Roland Allen)<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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