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Merv at 07:13, 24 November 2010

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	;[7]: Very Reverend Father, the isolation in which I found Father Roudaire and Father Violette makes me think that in Oceania, people don’t understand as they do in Lyons the passage of our rules which states that we should always be in pairs, and I predict that I will have arguments on that score, because it would be a question of putting me eight leagues away from Father Violette and besides the pathways are very difficult. Here it is asserted that the regulation is incompatible with the needs of the mission station. Dare I, Reverend Father, beg you to tell me, when you grant me the honour of writing to me what importance and what scope should be given to that regulation, how far is the priest required to go and how far has he the right to resist the tendency to isolation? What can he do and what should he do? Pardon me, Reverend Father, these questions which might be indiscrete, but I am frightened of being led astray in remembering how many times you recommended adhering to that regulation.		;[7]: Very Reverend Father, the isolation in which I found Father Roudaire and Father Violette makes me think that in Oceania, people don’t understand as they do in Lyons the passage of our rules which states that we should always be in pairs, and I predict that I will have arguments on that score, because it would be a question of putting me eight leagues away from Father Violette and besides the pathways are very difficult. Here it is asserted that the regulation is incompatible with the needs of the mission station. Dare I, Reverend Father, beg you to tell me, when you grant me the honour of writing to me what importance and what scope should be given to that regulation, how far is the priest required to go and how far has he the right to resist the tendency to isolation? What can he do and what should he do? Pardon me, Reverend Father, these questions which might be indiscrete, but I am frightened of being led astray in remembering how many times you recommended adhering to that regulation.

			===The Word for Love===

			Fr Xavier Montrouzier on the difficulties of the Mission [[Girard0644]]

			:They now understood a little of the language, which had presented endless difficulties occasioned by trying to communicate only by signs. That was an enormous step forward, as you cannot imagine how difficult it is to extract words from the savages once one has used up those that apply to material objects. So although we have been here nearly two years, we have not yet been able to learn the word for “love”.

			And commenting on the living of the Rule:

			:That was when we found out the sufferings that these worthy missionaries had endured, that they had all suffered from fever, that at times they had almost all been confined to bed and to top off their misfortunes they were short of morphine. But what greatly impressed me and gave me real pleasure was that this did not prevent them from carrying out all the Society’s practices. Meditation, special studies, spiritual readings, rosaries, prayers and when possible repentance and a month’s retreat, everything was as well organised as in the mother house in Lyon, so that, even though the mission was not fully functional we had the consolation of finding the organisation in good shape. Pray God that this spirit of order continues for us, because our sanctification depends on it, as you will understand and the success of our ministry depends on our sanctification.

Merv: /* The Rule about Community Life */

2010-09-27T19:44:12Z

The Rule about Community Life

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	==The Rule about Community Life==		===The Rule about Community Life===

	The paragraph below is from [[Girard0569]] written by Mugniéry, who I suspect of being inclined to play one authority off against the other.		The paragraph below is from [[Girard0569]] written by Mugniéry, who I suspect of being inclined to play one authority off against the other.

	;[7]: Very Reverend Father, the isolation in which I found Father Roudaire and Father Violette makes me think that in Oceania, people don’t understand as they do in Lyons the passage of our rules which states that we should always be in pairs, and I predict that I will have arguments on that score, because it would be a question of putting me eight leagues away from Father Violette and besides the pathways are very difficult. Here it is asserted that the regulation is incompatible with the needs of the mission station. Dare I, Reverend Father, beg you to tell me, when you grant me the honour of writing to me what importance and what scope should be given to that regulation, how far is the priest required to go and how far has he the right to resist the tendency to isolation? What can he do and what should he do? Pardon me, Reverend Father, these questions which might be indiscrete, but I am frightened of being led astray in remembering how many times you recommended adhering to that regulation.		;[7]: Very Reverend Father, the isolation in which I found Father Roudaire and Father Violette makes me think that in Oceania, people don’t understand as they do in Lyons the passage of our rules which states that we should always be in pairs, and I predict that I will have arguments on that score, because it would be a question of putting me eight leagues away from Father Violette and besides the pathways are very difficult. Here it is asserted that the regulation is incompatible with the needs of the mission station. Dare I, Reverend Father, beg you to tell me, when you grant me the honour of writing to me what importance and what scope should be given to that regulation, how far is the priest required to go and how far has he the right to resist the tendency to isolation? What can he do and what should he do? Pardon me, Reverend Father, these questions which might be indiscrete, but I am frightened of being led astray in remembering how many times you recommended adhering to that regulation.

Merv: /* First Marist to Die of Leprosy */

2010-09-27T19:43:46Z

First Marist to Die of Leprosy

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	[[Image:Nicoleau.jpg\|right\|Fr Xavier Nicoleau SM]]		[[Image:Nicoleau.jpg\|right\|Fr Xavier Nicoleau SM]]
	::There is in the General Archives a photo labelled "IL PADRE XAVIER NICOLEAU sm CAPELLANO AL LEBBROSARIO DI MAGOKAI E PRIMO MARISTA MORTO DI LEBBRA". I take from that that he is Fr Xavier Nicoleau, that he was a chaplain to the leper colony on Molokai, and that he was the first Marist to die of leprosy.		::There is in the General Archives a photo labelled "IL PADRE XAVIER NICOLEAU sm CAPELLANO AL LEBBROSARIO DI MAGOKAI E PRIMO MARISTA MORTO DI LEBBRA". I take from that that he is Fr Xavier Nicoleau, that he was a chaplain to the leper colony on Molokai, and that he was the first Marist to die of leprosy.


			==The Rule about Community Life==

			The paragraph below is from [[Girard0569]] written by Mugniéry, who I suspect of being inclined to play one authority off against the other.

			;[7]: Very Reverend Father, the isolation in which I found Father Roudaire and Father Violette makes me think that in Oceania, people don’t understand as they do in Lyons the passage of our rules which states that we should always be in pairs, and I predict that I will have arguments on that score, because it would be a question of putting me eight leagues away from Father Violette and besides the pathways are very difficult. Here it is asserted that the regulation is incompatible with the needs of the mission station. Dare I, Reverend Father, beg you to tell me, when you grant me the honour of writing to me what importance and what scope should be given to that regulation, how far is the priest required to go and how far has he the right to resist the tendency to isolation? What can he do and what should he do? Pardon me, Reverend Father, these questions which might be indiscrete, but I am frightened of being led astray in remembering how many times you recommended adhering to that regulation.

Merv: /* First Marist to Die of Leprosy */

2010-08-28T03:32:31Z

First Marist to Die of Leprosy

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	===First Marist to Die of Leprosy===		===First Marist to Die of Leprosy===
	[[Image:Nicoleau.jpg\|right\|Fr Xavier Nicoleau SM]]		[[Image:Nicoleau.jpg\|right\|Fr Xavier Nicoleau SM]]
	::There is in the General Archives a photo labelled "IL PADRE XAVIER NICOLEAU sm CAPELLANO AL LEBBROSARIO DI MAGOKAI E PRIMO MARISTA MORTO DI LEBBRA". I take from that that he is Fr Xavier Nicoleau, that he was a chaplain on Molokai, and that he was the first Marist to die of leprosy.		::There is in the General Archives a photo labelled "IL PADRE XAVIER NICOLEAU sm CAPELLANO AL LEBBROSARIO DI MAGOKAI E PRIMO MARISTA MORTO DI LEBBRA". I take from that that he is Fr Xavier Nicoleau, that he was a chaplain to the leper colony on Molokai, and that he was the first Marist to die of leprosy.

Merv: /* First Marist to Die of Leprosy */

2010-08-28T03:31:49Z

First Marist to Die of Leprosy

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	:Our dear colleagues have sent me our letters and the rule of the provincial to the foreign mission stations. Your good advice and your forgiveness for my failings will bolster me in the midst of difficulties which we have our share of here. Even your reprimands will always be received with all the submission and gratitude that I have promised you and that I renew from the bottom of my heart. Therefore, very Reverend Father, don’t fail a single occasion to send me this help, for your letters do me such good I will relate to you all the failings that I discover in my behaviour and I will pray to god to make you know the others. Ask Jesus and Mary for my sake the blessing of having with you a great sincerity of heart. I regard that quality as one of the most essential for a missionary religious who lives far from his superiors.		:Our dear colleagues have sent me our letters and the rule of the provincial to the foreign mission stations. Your good advice and your forgiveness for my failings will bolster me in the midst of difficulties which we have our share of here. Even your reprimands will always be received with all the submission and gratitude that I have promised you and that I renew from the bottom of my heart. Therefore, very Reverend Father, don’t fail a single occasion to send me this help, for your letters do me such good I will relate to you all the failings that I discover in my behaviour and I will pray to god to make you know the others. Ask Jesus and Mary for my sake the blessing of having with you a great sincerity of heart. I regard that quality as one of the most essential for a missionary religious who lives far from his superiors.
	===First Marist to Die of Leprosy===		===First Marist to Die of Leprosy===
			[[Image:Nicoleau.jpg\|right\|Fr Xavier Nicoleau SM]]
	::There is in the General Archives a photo labelled "IL PADRE XAVIER NICOLEAU sm CAPELLANO AL LEBBROSARIO DI MAGOKAI E PRIMO MARISTA MORTO DI LEBBRA". I take from that that he is Fr Xavier Nicoleau, that he was a chaplain on Molokai, and that he was the first Marist to die of leprosy.		::There is in the General Archives a photo labelled "IL PADRE XAVIER NICOLEAU sm CAPELLANO AL LEBBROSARIO DI MAGOKAI E PRIMO MARISTA MORTO DI LEBBRA". I take from that that he is Fr Xavier Nicoleau, that he was a chaplain on Molokai, and that he was the first Marist to die of leprosy.

Merv: /* First Marist to Die of Leprosy */

2010-08-28T03:26:13Z

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	:Our dear colleagues have sent me our letters and the rule of the provincial to the foreign mission stations. Your good advice and your forgiveness for my failings will bolster me in the midst of difficulties which we have our share of here. Even your reprimands will always be received with all the submission and gratitude that I have promised you and that I renew from the bottom of my heart. Therefore, very Reverend Father, don’t fail a single occasion to send me this help, for your letters do me such good I will relate to you all the failings that I discover in my behaviour and I will pray to god to make you know the others. Ask Jesus and Mary for my sake the blessing of having with you a great sincerity of heart. I regard that quality as one of the most essential for a missionary religious who lives far from his superiors.		:Our dear colleagues have sent me our letters and the rule of the provincial to the foreign mission stations. Your good advice and your forgiveness for my failings will bolster me in the midst of difficulties which we have our share of here. Even your reprimands will always be received with all the submission and gratitude that I have promised you and that I renew from the bottom of my heart. Therefore, very Reverend Father, don’t fail a single occasion to send me this help, for your letters do me such good I will relate to you all the failings that I discover in my behaviour and I will pray to god to make you know the others. Ask Jesus and Mary for my sake the blessing of having with you a great sincerity of heart. I regard that quality as one of the most essential for a missionary religious who lives far from his superiors.
	===First Marist to Die of Leprosy===		===First Marist to Die of Leprosy===
	There is in the General Archives a photo labelled "IL PADRE XAVIER NICOLEAU sm CAPELLANO AL LEBBROSARIO DI MAGOKAI E PRIMO MARISTA MORTO DI LEBBRA". I take from that that he is Fr Xavier Nicoleau, that he was a chaplain on Molokai, and that he was the first Marist to die of leprosy.		::There is in the General Archives a photo labelled "IL PADRE XAVIER NICOLEAU sm CAPELLANO AL LEBBROSARIO DI MAGOKAI E PRIMO MARISTA MORTO DI LEBBRA". I take from that that he is Fr Xavier Nicoleau, that he was a chaplain on Molokai, and that he was the first Marist to die of leprosy.

Merv: /* Receiving Fraternal Correction */

2010-08-28T03:25:41Z

Receiving Fraternal Correction

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	:Our dear colleagues have sent me our letters and the rule of the provincial to the foreign mission stations. Your good advice and your forgiveness for my failings will bolster me in the midst of difficulties which we have our share of here. Even your reprimands will always be received with all the submission and gratitude that I have promised you and that I renew from the bottom of my heart. Therefore, very Reverend Father, don’t fail a single occasion to send me this help, for your letters do me such good I will relate to you all the failings that I discover in my behaviour and I will pray to god to make you know the others. Ask Jesus and Mary for my sake the blessing of having with you a great sincerity of heart. I regard that quality as one of the most essential for a missionary religious who lives far from his superiors.		:Our dear colleagues have sent me our letters and the rule of the provincial to the foreign mission stations. Your good advice and your forgiveness for my failings will bolster me in the midst of difficulties which we have our share of here. Even your reprimands will always be received with all the submission and gratitude that I have promised you and that I renew from the bottom of my heart. Therefore, very Reverend Father, don’t fail a single occasion to send me this help, for your letters do me such good I will relate to you all the failings that I discover in my behaviour and I will pray to god to make you know the others. Ask Jesus and Mary for my sake the blessing of having with you a great sincerity of heart. I regard that quality as one of the most essential for a missionary religious who lives far from his superiors.
			===First Marist to Die of Leprosy===
			There is in the General Archives a photo labelled "IL PADRE XAVIER NICOLEAU sm CAPELLANO AL LEBBROSARIO DI MAGOKAI E PRIMO MARISTA MORTO DI LEBBRA". I take from that that he is Fr Xavier Nicoleau, that he was a chaplain on Molokai, and that he was the first Marist to die of leprosy.

Merv: /* Receiving Fraternal Correction */

2010-06-28T04:29:20Z

Receiving Fraternal Correction

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	===Receiving Fraternal Correction===		===Receiving Fraternal Correction===
	[[Girard0399]] Paragraph 2,		[[Girard0399]] Paragraph 2, Antoine Dubreul

	:Our dear colleagues have sent me our letters and the rule of the provincial to the foreign mission stations. Your good advice and your forgiveness for my failings will bolster me in the midst of difficulties which we have our share of here. Even your reprimands will always be received with all the submission and gratitude that I have promised you and that I renew from the bottom of my heart. Therefore, very Reverend Father, don’t fail a single occasion to send me this help, for your letters do me such good I will relate to you all the failings that I discover in my behaviour and I will pray to god to make you know the others. Ask Jesus and Mary for my sake the blessing of having with you a great sincerity of heart. I regard that quality as one of the most essential for a missionary religious who lives far from his superiors.		:Our dear colleagues have sent me our letters and the rule of the provincial to the foreign mission stations. Your good advice and your forgiveness for my failings will bolster me in the midst of difficulties which we have our share of here. Even your reprimands will always be received with all the submission and gratitude that I have promised you and that I renew from the bottom of my heart. Therefore, very Reverend Father, don’t fail a single occasion to send me this help, for your letters do me such good I will relate to you all the failings that I discover in my behaviour and I will pray to god to make you know the others. Ask Jesus and Mary for my sake the blessing of having with you a great sincerity of heart. I regard that quality as one of the most essential for a missionary religious who lives far from his superiors.

Merv: /* Article 13 & Br Germanique */

2010-06-28T04:27:49Z

Article 13 & Br Germanique

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	In [[Clisby142]] he writes:		In [[Clisby142]] he writes:
	:::I was preoccupied with many thoughts during the day I spent alone among the savages. I saw around me old men come almost to the end of their days without having known the good God who gave them existence; children scarcely started on life’s path, left to themselves, deprived of Christian and civilized education. I compared the lot of these poor children to that enjoyed by those attending our schools in France, and I was moved by the unfortunate state of these poor little creatures.		:::I was preoccupied with many thoughts during the day I spent alone among the savages. I saw around me old men come almost to the end of their days without having known the good God who gave them existence; children scarcely started on life’s path, left to themselves, deprived of Christian and civilized education. I compared the lot of these poor children to that enjoyed by those attending our schools in France, and I was moved by the unfortunate state of these poor little creatures.

			===Receiving Fraternal Correction===
			[[Girard0399]] Paragraph 2,

			:Our dear colleagues have sent me our letters and the rule of the provincial to the foreign mission stations. Your good advice and your forgiveness for my failings will bolster me in the midst of difficulties which we have our share of here. Even your reprimands will always be received with all the submission and gratitude that I have promised you and that I renew from the bottom of my heart. Therefore, very Reverend Father, don’t fail a single occasion to send me this help, for your letters do me such good I will relate to you all the failings that I discover in my behaviour and I will pray to god to make you know the others. Ask Jesus and Mary for my sake the blessing of having with you a great sincerity of heart. I regard that quality as one of the most essential for a missionary religious who lives far from his superiors.

Merv: /* Article 6 the meaning of the Society's name */

2010-06-20T02:33:50Z

Article 6 the meaning of the Society's name

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	Perhaps more directly about the Society of Mary, this from Louis-Maxime Petit in [[Girard0415]]:		Perhaps more directly about the Society of Mary, this from Louis-Maxime Petit in [[Girard0415]]:
	:::It was with a truly perceptible pleasure that I learnt about the great progress being made by the various branches of the Society of Mary. Only a few years ago it was just like a grain of mustard seed~~[1]~~ and here is, already, a tree that puts out its branches on all sides. The rapid progress made by the Society give me great hopes for the islands of Oceania, too many of which are infested with heresy, which is worse in one sense than paganism; but, I am certain, Mary, through the means of the Society which is glorified by belonging to her in a quite special way, will prove to the world that the Church does not sing in vain: Gaude, Maria, cunctas haereses sola interemisti in universo mundo.		:::It was with a truly perceptible pleasure that I learnt about the great progress being made by the various branches of the Society of Mary. Only a few years ago it was just like a grain of mustard seed and here is, already, a tree that puts out its branches on all sides. The rapid progress made by the Society give me great hopes for the islands of Oceania, too many of which are infested with heresy, which is worse in one sense than paganism; but, I am certain, Mary, through the means of the Society which is glorified by belonging to her in a quite special way, will prove to the world that the Church does not sing in vain: ''Gaude, Maria, cunctas haereses sola interemisti in universo mundo.''
	:::If Mary did not triumph, in Oceania, over the demon of heresy, this praise which the Church addresses to Mary would no longer be true in its full meaning; so this praise, which is, for the other parts of the world, the statement of a fact, is, in the context of the islands of Oceania, a prophecy. The Blessed Virgin has already shown her power there, and there is every reason to hope that her victory will be all the more complete to the degree that her enemies put more fury into attacking her cult.		:::If Mary did not triumph, in Oceania, over the demon of heresy, this praise which the Church addresses to Mary would no longer be true in its full meaning; so this praise, which is, for the other parts of the world, the statement of a fact, is, in the context of the islands of Oceania, a prophecy. The Blessed Virgin has already shown her power there, and there is every reason to hope that her victory will be all the more complete to the degree that her enemies put more fury into attacking her cult.