{"id":6377,"date":"2026-06-01T01:00:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T23:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=6377"},"modified":"2026-05-31T21:13:41","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T19:13:41","slug":"how-could-i-be-insensitive-to-the-sufferings-that-you-are-enduring-to-extend-the-kingdom-of-jesus-christ-c-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=6377","title":{"rendered":"HOW COULD I BE INSENSITIVE TO THE SUFFERINGS THAT YOU ARE ENDURING TO EXTEND THE KINGDOM OF JESUS CHRIST (C 11)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our mission is to proclaim the Kingdom of God and to seek it before all else (cf. Mt 6: 33).<\/strong> Constitution 11<\/em><\/h3>\n

Very often Eugene\u2019s letters to his missionaries express this sentiment:<\/h3>\n

your wonderful mission of making Jesus Christ known and extending his kingdom as you walk in the footsteps of the Apostles.<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n

Letter to Fr. Semeria in Ceylon, 25 January 1848, EO IV, n. 2.<\/em><\/h3>\n

He encourages his Oblate family in this mission:<\/h3>\n

One of my greatest joys is to receive your letters; the tiniest detail of what concerns you interests and touches me. How could I be insensitive to the sufferings that you are enduring to extend the Kingdom of Jesus Christ and to respond to your beautiful vocation, which has called you to the most meritorious mission that I know. <\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n

There is no doubt that you are buying souls at the price of your own blood, you, the first apostles of those souls whom God wishes to save by means of your ministry. If there had not been you to seek them as far as the ends of the earth, what would have become of them? <\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n

I can understand that the consolation of seeing so many creatures made in the image of God enter into the sheepfold of Jesus Christ as a result of your care for them is a great recompense for all your efforts, an unutterable consolation; it is this that sustains your courage, and, I can say to you, softens the pain that I feel in being separated from you.<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n

Letter to Fr. Maisonneuve in Red River, 13 March 1857, EO II n. 230<\/em><\/h3>\n

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