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YOU DID IT TO ME
The Youth Congregation was centred on the welfare of each young member. Continuing to develop the concept of the Congregation as a caring mother, Eugene explains what the young person has the right to expect when he becomes a member … Continue reading
A TOUCH OF REALISM
Eugene was so involved in the lives of each congregant, and so it was natural that it was he who would want to administer the sacrament of the sick to the young person in danger of death. But we see … Continue reading
THE LANGUAGE OF KINDNESS
Art. 37. All this material care lavished on the sick congregants indicates with what zeal the Congregation will pay close attention to provide them with an infinitely higher form of care. Statuts XIV, §2 Envers les congréganistes malades The Youth … Continue reading
THE PRACTICAL FACE OF CARING
Art. 35. In the case of the sick person not having sufficient money to pay for the expenses which are incurred through the illness, the Council [ed. the leadership executive of the Youth Congregation], becoming aware of the situation, will … Continue reading
THE SHORTEST ANSWER IS DOING
In seeing how these young people of the Youth Congregation grew into a closely bonded family, we can understand the level of concern when one of them became ill. It was an invitation to put their love for one another … Continue reading
SURROUNDING THE SICK WITH AFFECTION
Art. 23. As soon as the Director has been informed of the illness of one of the congregants he will go and visit him immediately. Art. 24. He will inform the infirmarians of the illness of the congregant and of … Continue reading
THE PRAYER OF FAITH WILL SAVE THE ONE WHO IS SICK
Art 46. If, after the third day of fever, the illness takes on an alarming quality, the sick congregant will ask for the sacraments of the Church. He will make this demand in a way that those around him will … Continue reading
BE ALERT
When one bears in mind the high mortality rate at the time of Eugene – where, for example, one in four persons died of tuberculosis – it is easy to understand his reminder to the young people of the possibility … Continue reading
I WAS SICK AND YOU CARED FOR ME
Eugene’s ideal of forming the youth to live the love of Jesus Christ had to be put into practice in real situations. We have seen how he did this in the question of their relationships with each other. Now Eugene … Continue reading
LIKE A TENDER MOTHER SHE HAS NEGLECTED NOTHING TO HELP WITH ALL HER POWER THE DEAR SON WHOM SHE FORMED IN PIETY
Eugene regarded the Youth Congregation’s role in the life of its members as that of a mother. The Congregation existed to help the young men to develop in their humanity, to become Christians and to form them in the way … Continue reading