{"id":5970,"date":"2025-02-10T03:02:18","date_gmt":"2025-02-10T02:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5970"},"modified":"2025-02-10T03:02:18","modified_gmt":"2025-02-10T02:02:18","slug":"the-expansion-of-missionary-activities-for-the-conversion-of-non-christians-but-also-to-found-schools-and-a-seminary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5970","title":{"rendered":"THE EXPANSION OF MISSIONARY ACTIVITIES FOR THE CONVERSION OF NON-CHRISTIANS BUT ALSO TO FOUND SCHOOLS AND A SEMINARY"},"content":{"rendered":"

Turning our attention to Ceylon (Sri Lanka today), we recall how the first four Oblates had arrived there in 1847, with the charge of reviving the faith of the Catholics who had abandoned it and converting over a million people who did not know Jesus Christ.<\/h3>\n

Father Semeria always cooperated with Bishop Bettachini who made him his secretary. He accepted that Bishop Bettachini placed the three priests in three missions distant from one another: Father Semeria in Jaffna to the north, Father Ciamin in Mantotte to the west and Father Keating in Batticaloa to the East, and we do not know where Brother de Steffanis was doing his ministry. Later, Father Semeria would see to it that the missionaries were allocated two by two in the missions. When the second group arrived in 1849, Fathers Semeria and Le Bescou were in Jaffna, Fathers Ciamin and Leydier in Point Pedro and Fathers Keating and Mouchel in Batticaloa. Two more were to arrive in 1850.<\/h3>\n

Your Eminence, to conclude the picture I wish to place before you, I would recall that 10 Oblate missionaries are working in the Vicariate of Jaffna in Ceylon and others will follow when it may please the Holy See to entrust that Vicariate to the Congregation, not only to facilitate the expansion of missionary activities for the conversion of non-Christians but also to found schools and a seminary.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

Letter to Cardinal Fransoni, Prefect of the S. Cong. of Propaganda Fide, 25 July 1850, EO V n 16<\/em><\/h3>\n

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

We will spare no effort to awaken or to reawaken the faith in the people to whom we are “sent, and we will help them to discover \u201cwho Christ is”. Our mission puts us on constant call to respond to the most urgent needs of the Church through various forms of witness and ministry, but especially through proclaiming the Word of God which finds its fulfilment in the celebration of the sacraments and in service to others.<\/p>\n

OMI Rule of Life, Constitution 7<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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