{"id":5962,"date":"2025-01-28T01:00:32","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T00:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5962"},"modified":"2025-01-27T21:48:51","modified_gmt":"2025-01-27T20:48:51","slug":"he-put-before-me-some-very-good-reasons-for-having-an-establishment-of-our-congregation-set-up-in-his-interesting-diocese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5962","title":{"rendered":"HE PUT BEFORE ME SOME VERY GOOD REASONS FOR HAVING AN ESTABLISHMENT OF OUR CONGREGATION SET UP IN HIS INTERESTING DIOCESE"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have had three Bishops here one after the other, and you can understand that with such guests it is not easy to have time to oneself. One of these prelates was Bishop Timon, the Bishop of Buffalo in the United States, whom I had for eight days. He put before me some very good reasons for having an establishment of our Congregation set up in his interesting diocese. It is clear that there will be plenty to do there, and moreover his diocese is not far from Montreal, and so will serve as a connecting link with our other establishments. And so I yielded to his request.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

Letter to Fr. \u00c9tienne Semeria in Jaffna, 17 January 1850, EO IV n 14<\/em><\/h3>\n

Yvon Beaudoin writes: “The minutes of the General Council\u2019s January 4,1850 meeting speak favorably of accepting an offer to have the Oblates come to Buffalo, among the factors favorable to accepting this offer were Buffalo\u2019s unique location only 24 hours from NY equidistant to Montreal where the Oblates were already established and only 48 hours to Bytown whose Episcopal Seat was held by Bishop Guigues, o.m.i., who was also the Oblate Vicar in North America and the promise which Buffalo had for growth as a major city in the United States. The minutes mention that the Bishop was seeking three Oblates and describe the offer of a small parish and college, the revenues and land of which would be given to the Oblates. The Bishop was requesting three Oblates, The proposal received the full acceptance of the Council.”<\/h3>\n

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

The Oblates of Texas and of Buffalo engage in friendly rivalry about which the first Oblate establishment in the USA was. Texas claims that the Oblates got there first. Buffalo says \u201cyes. but you left soon afterwards, while we have stayed for the longest.\u201d Both are wrong, because Oregon was the first place in the USA where the Oblates came.<\/h3>\n

On a more serious note:<\/h3>\n

\u201cThere is no ministry, however, which is foreign to us, provided we never lose sight of the Congregation\u2019s primary purpose: to evangelize the most abandoned.\u201d (OMI Constitutions and Rules, Rule 7b)<\/h3>\n

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