{"id":65,"date":"2010-06-10T21:46:31","date_gmt":"2010-06-10T19:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=65"},"modified":"2010-09-08T10:59:27","modified_gmt":"2010-09-08T08:59:27","slug":"eugene-gives-hope-to-a-church-ravaged-by-the-bad-behaviour-of-some-priests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=65","title":{"rendered":"EUGENE GIVES HOPE TO A CHURCH RAVAGED BY THE BAD BEHAVIOUR OF SOME PRIESTS"},"content":{"rendered":"

Because of the Year of the Priest I have jumped ahead to the Rule of 1818, where Eugene expresses his ideals of priesthood for the Oblates within the context of the suffering of the Church aggravated by bad priests.
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” The Church, that glorious inheritance purchased by the Saviour at the cost of all his blood, has in our days been cruelly ravaged…<\/span>… In this lamentable state, the Church calls for help to her ministers, those to whom she has entrusted the most precious interests of her Divine Spouse and it is the majority of those very ministers who by their reprehensible conduct aggravate even further the ills from which she suffers. <\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>The real purpose of our Institute is to remedy all these evils, as much as possible to restore order in all this confusion. <\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>To achieve some measure of success in this holy endeavour, we must first of all seek out the causes of the depravity which is presently making men slaves of their passions.<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>We can synthesis them under three headings:<\/span>
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1. The weakening, if not the total loss, of faith.<\/span>
\n<\/span>2. Ignorance among the people.<\/span>
\n<\/span>3. Laziness, indifference and corruption among the priests…<\/span>
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This third cause must be considered as the main one and the root of the other two.”<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h6>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The remedy that Eugene suggests:
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“... The achieving of this end will require the forming of apostles, who, after having become convinced of the necessity of their own reform: take care about what you do, <\/em>should work with all their strength to convert others: Take great care about what you do and what you teach and thus you will save both yourself and those who listen to you <\/em>(I Timothy 4:16). And as we have seen that the real source of the evil is the indifference, the avarice and corruption of the priests, once these abuses will have been reformed, the others will cease as well. See to it that you have zealous, altruistic and solidly virtuous priests and soon you will bring back to the fold the people who have wandered away from their duties.”<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h6>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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Extract from the Nota bene (1818 Rule)<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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