In the meantime, this is what the first group of Oblates had been doing in Oregon before the arrival of this second group of three missionaries.<\/p>\n
Eugene had surmised:<\/p>\n
I do not know if we can count on establishing Christian communities amongst the Indigenous people; in such a case we should leave Providence to act and if God calls upon us to make the faith flourish in this glacial world, we will not lack men ready to consecrate themselves to this ministry.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n Letter to Bishop Guigues, 13 April 1850, EO I, n 131<\/em><\/p>\n But, despite the odds against them, they did succeed. Beginning in 1847 they built a wooden chapel and house at the meeting of the Yakima and Colombia Rivers. They dedicated this mission to Saint Rose of Lima. The place chosen for the Saint Rose mission proved unsuitable because of the lack of timber for building and of arable land. Besides, there was no Amerindian encampment in that place and the Oblates did not stay long. In the meantime Father Ricard made a foundation on the south shore of Puget Sound bay. Ron Young (p. 85): \u00a0“Saint Rose, Immaculate Conception, Saint Joseph and Holy Cross in the diocese of Walla Walla were little more than wilderness huts, sparse and uninviting. It would take time before they could be built up into anything resembling more than a one-man hovel. However, the locations were well chosen for encountering the native peoples of the area. Further, Father Chirouse showed great initiative by following Kamiakin\u2019s tribe to their winter retreat and establishing another mission there in order to continue the evangelization he had begun. In this way, he adapted the location of the mission to the lifestyle of those he was sent to serve.”<\/p>\n REFLECTION<\/strong><\/p>\n “If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.” \u2013 Martin Luther King Jr.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In the meantime, this is what the first group of Oblates had been doing in Oregon before the arrival of this second group of three missionaries. Eugene had surmised: I do not know if we can count on establishing Christian … Continue reading
\nBeginning in 1848 and 1849, Fathers Chirouse and Pandosy together with Brothers Blanchet and Verney, founded three other missions about 50 kilometres from one another \u201cat the request of the chiefs of small Yakima tribes numbering about 150, or 200, or at most 300 each\u201d as Father Ricard wrote to Father Faraud on February 10, 1852. At each place the missionaries built a small poor chapel. When they arrived in the region there was \u201cneither parish, nor mission, not chapel, nor house.\u201d
\nhttps:\/\/www.omiworld.org\/lemma\/oregon-united-states-1847-1860\/<\/a><\/p>\n