Thursday, March 3, 2011

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For the Mission Church

I had never dropped in on Marseille plane. The arrival of the city is announced by the limestone massif of Les Calanques, severe, dry, jagged, which apparently ruffled drops and gullies. Now you opens the old port and the castle of If you can see the sanctuary of the Madonna della Guardia, the cathedral. So the sun illuminates the clouds and the soft padding. Eugene has never been able to give a hug to his city so large. Crossing the aero plana Marseille Marignane airport. Already, Marignane! I wonder how it has been two hundred years ago, in November 1816, when St. Eugene I preached one of his first missions? Today it has 34,000 inhabitants, then it was 1,600. It was the fourth mission of the tiny community of the Missionaries of Provence. Eugene kept a detailed diary throughout the month, thus giving us a way of getting to the heart of the mission. They began with a visit to the families, a genuine novelty, then, guided "really not funny, but are important as they approached the missionaries to the people who come to evangelize. It shows it in all the affability of a charity that does everything to everyone ... Should take care to enter all homes, even in those where it is expected that you will be greeted evil. "
horizon I see the ridge of rocks west of the airport and around the plain white with sea pines twisted as olive trees. The short journey to Aix-en-Provence I still immersed in the nature of this country ancient Provence.
Back to Aix after fifteen years and I find myself at home. The first visit to the mission church. I can just walk to feel the presence of St. Eugene and there, beside him, that of Francesco Saverio Tempier. Yes, I'm right here!
Before the construction of the church in this place there was a mill and a large pine tree under which the Protestants preached and prayed. During the first war of religion in 1545, the pine was used to hang the Protestants. Some twenty years after the king, in passing, he did cut as a sign of reconciliation. Then arose the church, by the Carmelites, who built the convent. When the revolution sent home the religious, the church became a temple of the Goddess of Reason! How many stories of goodness and evil in this place ... Now it's "Mission Church" or the "Church of the Oblates."
In the niche on the right, next to the altar, I see with surprise the old statue of the Madonna delle Grazie, brought to Aix by St. Bonaventure, the statue in front of which the young people of St. Eugene asked him for healing el 'got! They took her here because the church of the Madeleine, where there was always, it is now being restored. We hope that forget qui, nella nostra chiesa oblata.

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