{"id":5942,"date":"2025-01-06T01:00:24","date_gmt":"2025-01-06T00:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5942"},"modified":"2025-01-02T23:44:53","modified_gmt":"2025-01-02T22:44:53","slug":"if-we-had-the-money-necessary-to-pay-for-the-journey-the-missionaries-would-have-arrived-in-ceylon-long-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5942","title":{"rendered":"IF WE HAD THE MONEY NECESSARY TO PAY FOR THE JOURNEY, THE MISSIONARIES WOULD HAVE ARRIVED IN CEYLON LONG AGO"},"content":{"rendered":"

The beginnings of the Oblate mission in Ceylon, in the area of Jaffna, were not as smooth as Eugene had hoped. There were many factions in the church as we will see in the future. More urgent was the sending of new Oblate missionaries to the territory, but the Bishop of Jaffna had taken the grant from Rome for his own use and not to pay the voyage of the new Oblate missionaries. Eugene wrote to Fr. Semeria, the Oblate superior:<\/h3>\n

My dear Fr. Semeria, your letters always give me the greatest pleasure, but they upset me when you persist in asking me so urgently to send you missionaries. You know, my dear son, that the Vicar Apostolic has reserved to himself all the allowance that the Propagation of the Faith was to make for Ceylon. This is the most annoying thing a man could possibly do. By refusing the help that we had a right to expect from the Propagation of the Faith, he has made it absolutely impossible for us to send the missionaries. If the Propagation of the Faith had given us the money necessary to pay for the journey, the missionaries would have arrived in Ceylon long ago.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

Letter to Fr. Etienne Semeria, 20 January 1849, EO IV n. 9<\/em><\/h3>\n

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

A sobering thought about mission: it cannot happen unless we have the financial means to support the missionaries and their work. A moment to give thanks to the countless benefactors of our missions from 1816 until now. Without our Missionary Associates and Lay Associates, our missionaries could not have been as successful as they have been. The beauty of this support is that the Lay members of our Oblate Charismatic Family have understood that they are not just supporters of the Oblate mission, but co-workers, \u201cco-missionaries\u201d – each one according to their situation and state of life. What a gift!<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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