{"id":5901,"date":"2024-11-14T01:00:59","date_gmt":"2024-11-14T00:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5901"},"modified":"2024-11-13T22:17:59","modified_gmt":"2024-11-13T21:17:59","slug":"i-bless-the-lord-for-this-with-all-my-soul-and-look-forward-to-the-still-greater-good-that-will-ensue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5901","title":{"rendered":"I BLESS THE LORD FOR THIS WITH ALL MY SOUL AND LOOK FORWARD TO THE STILL GREATER GOOD THAT WILL ENSUE"},"content":{"rendered":"

We continue to recall the beginnings of the Oblate mission in the Anglo Irish Province.<\/h3>\n

In 1845 Ambrose Phillips de Lisle invited the Oblates to take charge of the chaplaincy which he maintained in Grace Dieu, Leicestershire. Fr. Aubert assigned three Fathers to this mission and Bishop de Mazenod sent Fr. Cooke to assist them. The pastoral work at Grace Dieu was similar to that undertaken at Penzance. In 1847 the Oblates, were invited to take charge of the church at Everingham in Yorkshire, and were later asked to work in Aldenham, near Shrewsbury and at Fairfield and Failsworth in Manchester.<\/h3>\n

Meanwhile, Bishop Ullathorne offered them the tenancy of Old Oscott, renamed Maryvale by John Henry Newman who had presided over the establishment of the English Oratorians there. This served as a noviciate and scholasticate for the next three years when Maryvale had to be given up. Mr. Peter Middleton of Sicklinghall in Yorkshire in 1848, invited the Oblates to take up the care of souls in the vicinity of his mansion and offered them the possession of a house and church that he had just completed. The noviciate and scholasticate then moved to Sicklinghall. During these momentous and inspiring years the pattern of the Oblate mission apostolate in England was similar to that of other missionary societies that had come from the continent to gather in the growing harvest of souls. It was in these rural centres that the Fathers served their apprenticeship before taking up the incalculably larger apostolate in the cities. (https:\/\/www.omiworld.org\/lemma\/anglo-irish-province-1841-1945\/<\/a>)<\/h3>\n

Eugene\u2019s reaction:<\/h3>\n

My good and very dear son, your letter was balm for me in all that it said to uplift me. Even if our temporal affairs are not brilliant in England, at least a good spirit reigns amongst our Fathers and the edification afforded by their regularity can perhaps produce as many conversions as their words. I bless the Lord for this with all my soul and look forward with consolation beyond words to the still greater good that will ensue…<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

To Fr. Charles Bellon in England, 15 December 1848, EO III n 22.<\/em><\/h3>\n

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

\u201cI cared not where or how I lived, or what hardships I went through, so that I could but gain souls to Christ.\u201d (D. Brainerd)<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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