{"id":5948,"date":"2025-01-13T01:00:37","date_gmt":"2025-01-13T00:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5948"},"modified":"2025-01-12T21:28:34","modified_gmt":"2025-01-12T20:28:34","slug":"let-me-tell-you-i-feel-an-extreme-repugnance-for-foreign-countries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5948","title":{"rendered":"LET ME TELL YOU I FEEL AN EXTREME REPUGNANCE FOR FOREIGN COUNTRIES"},"content":{"rendered":"

Not everyone who came to join the Oblates had a missionary zeal to go to the foreign missions. Eugene quotes one:<\/h3>\n

Here is a masterpiece from Palle, quite a model of holy indifference! \u201cOh, my Father, let me tell you I feel an extreme repugnance for foreign countries and especially for England. I do not know a word of English and I believe I will never learn for I have no aptitude for languages, etc. I beg you, Reverend Father, take this burden from me\u2026\u00a0 Really, my Father, there are others you would place on the pinnacle of happiness, while I would be miserable away from France, without knowing a single word of their language, useless for such a long time and so far from you….\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

The rest of it is in this vein. He ends: \u201cOh, the good your reply will do to me. I await it as a sweet dew to reinvigorate my soul wilting with dread\u201d. Have you ever heard anything so wretched? What can be done with such a spirit?<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

Happily, the majority of Oblates had more generous hearts:<\/h3>\n

How quickly my spirits are refreshed by this excellent Arnoux. Not a word of demur, not the slightest remark. Mother, country, no such considerations have been put forward. He sets forth because he is called upon. May God bless such members and may he grant us a great number of them!<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

Letter to Fr Casimir Aubert, in England, 12 May 1849, OW III n. 25<\/em><\/h3>\n

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

\u201cWe\u2019ve strayed from being fishers of men to being keepers of the aquarium\u201d (Paul Harvey)<\/h3>\n

May this never be said about the members of the Oblate Charismatic Family, whose characteristic is oblation.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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