{"id":5945,"date":"2025-01-09T01:00:53","date_gmt":"2025-01-09T00:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5945"},"modified":"2025-01-06T18:11:35","modified_gmt":"2025-01-06T17:11:35","slug":"are-you-only-on-your-island-as-parish-priests-of-old-christians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5945","title":{"rendered":"ARE YOU ONLY ON YOUR ISLAND AS PARISH PRIESTS OF OLD CHRISTIANS?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Having sent his Oblate missionaries so far away, Eugene longed to hear from them and their missionary successes among the most abandoned.<\/h3>\n

You do not give me enough details on your way of life, where you live, and your ministry. When will you begin to win the unbelievers? Are you only on your island as parish priests of old Christians? I had always thought the idea was to convert the pagans. That is what we are made for rather than anything else. There are enough bad Christians in Europe without our having to go and look for them so far away. Give me plenty of information on this, even if all there is to report so far is hopes.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

Goodbye, my dear son; I embrace you and bless you with all my heart.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

Letter to Fr Etienne Semeria in Ceylon, 21 February 1849, EO IV n. 10<\/em><\/h3>\n

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

Eugene\u2019s spirit continues today in his Oblate Family:<\/h3>\n

\u201cWe are a missionary Congregation. Our principal service in the Church is to proclaim Christ and his Kingdom to the most abandoned. We preach the Gospel among people who have not yet received it and help them see their own values in its light. Where the Church is already established, our commitment is to those groups it touches least.<\/h3>\n

Wherever we work, our mission is especially to those people whose condition cries out for salvation and for the hope which only Jesus Christ can fully bring. These are the poor with their many faces; we give them our preference.\u201d (OMI Constitutions and Rules<\/em>, C 5)<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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