{"id":6101,"date":"2025-08-11T01:00:19","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T23:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=6101"},"modified":"2025-08-11T14:06:50","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T12:06:50","slug":"we-will-spare-no-effort-to-re-awaken-the-faith-in-people-c-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=6101","title":{"rendered":"WE WILL SPARE NO EFFORT TO RE-AWAKEN THE FAITH IN PEOPLE (C 7)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

Constitution 7<\/em><\/h3>\n

Eugene founded us to \u201creawaken the faith\u201d of the people of France after the French Revolution. Christopher Dawson described that situation as \u201can atmosphere of defeat and disaster\u201d and continued:<\/h3>\n

“Everything had to be rebuilt from the foundations. The religious orders and the monasteries, the Catholic universities and colleges and, not least, the foreign missions had all been destroyed or reduced to poverty and impotence. Worst of all, the Church was still associated with the unpopular cause of the political reaction and the tradition of the ancien r\u00e9gime.<\/em><\/h3>\n

Yet, in spite of all these disasters, the Church did recover and a revival of Catholicism took place, so that the church was in a far stronger position by 1850 than it had been 100 years before when it still possessed its ancient wealth and privileges.”\u00a0(The Historic Reality of Christian Culture, p. 57 – <\/em>https:\/\/archive.org\/)<\/h3>\n

Eugene\u2019s Missionaries played an important role in the recovery of the Church through the impact of the prolonged and intense parish missions in France and Corsica, and later in the missions outside of France where they encountered Catholics who had fallen away.<\/h3>\n

(The topic of the popular missions has been reflected on in depth in this series in the past. I invite you to consult some of these entries, from https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=358<\/a> to https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=2524<\/a> )<\/h3>\n

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