{"id":5903,"date":"2024-11-15T01:00:41","date_gmt":"2024-11-15T00:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5903"},"modified":"2024-11-14T21:07:03","modified_gmt":"2024-11-14T20:07:03","slug":"5903","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5903","title":{"rendered":"TO BE THE SUCCESSOR OF SO MANY MEN RENOWNED FOR THEIR WISDOM AND HOLINESS IS NO SMALL THING"},"content":{"rendered":"

In 1846 John Henry Newman and his community who had recently been received into the Church were granted the site as a house of retreat and study. It was Newman and his followers who gave it the name \u201cMaryvale\u201d, which it still retains, and it is specified in the Papal Brief as the location of the first English Oratory of St. Philip in 1848.
\nIn the light of this it is easy to understand the enthusiasm with which the Founder greeted the acquisition of Maryvale by the Oblates.<\/h3>\n

So now you are installed in your holy house which, I am sure, shall not fall away from its deserved repute, while in your hands. It is a delicate trust. To be the successor of so many men renowned for their wisdom and holiness is no small thing. It would seem to me that all eyes in England are fixed upon you and that great examples of virtues will be expected from a place sanctified by Milner, Newman, etc. I cannot recover from my astonishment at seeing you established in this place and I do not cease to thank God from the bottom of my heart.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

Letter to Fr. Arnoux in Maryvale, England, 20 July 1849, EO III n 29.<\/em><\/h3>\n

It was offered to them by Bishop Ullathorne as a novitiate and house of studies when it was vacated by Newman in 1848.The terms were that they were to serve the local mission and keep the property \u2018in tenantable repair\u2019. On 8 July 1849 the General Council approved its acceptance by Fr. Aubert, the superior of the Oblate mission in Britain. (https:\/\/www.omiworld.org\/lemma\/maryvale-old-oscott-england-1849-1852\/<\/a>)<\/h3>\n

The house was intended to be more than a novitiate. A decision was made that all Oblates assigned to the foreign missions should spend at least a year in England to learn English and become inculturated.<\/h3>\n

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

\u201cIf we look to the saints, this great luminous wake with which God has passed through history, we truly see that here is a force for good that survives through millennia; here is truly light from light.\u201d (Pope Benedict XVI)<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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