{"id":105981,"date":"2015-02-11T04:41:03","date_gmt":"2015-02-11T03:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vincentians.com\/blog\/the-unedited-collection-of-letters-of-blessed-marcantonio-durando-2\/"},"modified":"2016-07-10T08:48:29","modified_gmt":"2016-07-10T06:48:29","slug":"three-invitations-of-blessed-fr-marcantonio-durando-to-the-vincentian-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vincentians.com\/en\/three-invitations-of-blessed-fr-marcantonio-durando-to-the-vincentian-family\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Invitations of Blessed Fr. Marcantonio Durando to the Vincentian Family"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>1. <\/strong><strong>An invitation to revive the spirituality of St. Vincent de Paul<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Fr. Marcantonio Durando, CM, was always \u201cfascinated\u201d by the spirituality of St. Vincent de Paul. Thanks to the presence of the <em>Signori della Missione <\/em>[the \u201cgentlemen\u201d of the Mission] in his native city of Mondov\u00ec, he chose to enter the Congregation with the intention of realizing his desire to \u201cgo as a missionary to China.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He cultivated that \u201cspirituality\u201d for his whole life.<\/p>\n<p>Of his many letters, I cite one written to a sister<span id='easy-footnote-1-105981' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='http:\/\/vincentians.com\/en\/three-invitations-of-blessed-fr-marcantonio-durando-to-the-vincentian-family\/#easy-footnote-bottom-1-105981' title='P. Marcantonio Durando, &lt;em&gt;Epistolario&lt;\/em&gt;, letters transcribed by Luigi Chierotti, CM, Vol. VI, pp. 65-66, Sarzana 1979, letter of 13 July 1862.'><sup>1<\/sup><\/a><\/span> where our beatified confrere manifests clearly his search of (and his request for) \u201cthe spirit of St. Vincent\u201d:<\/p>\n<p>\u2026 I recommend myself to you during this novena to St. Vincent. I need his spirit, and I lack it and I do not see in me any mark of it except a faint desire to have it; as I get older and approach death, I still I feel in me the spirit of the world, and the spirit of vanity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Obtain for me then this spirit of St. Vincent, so that I can still do, or better, that I can begin to do some good for the Congregation of the Mission, and pray to him that that he may enroll me in the number and in the book of his sons who are good, pious, humble, and observant<\/em>\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>At his death it was said: <em>We have lost another St. Vincent. <\/em>In the 79 years of his life he focused attention on the <em>Vincentian vocation <\/em>through the ministries characteristic of the Company:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>he began his priestly ministry with the <em>preaching of popular missions to the people;<\/em><\/li>\n<li>almost immediately he added the <em>formation of the clergy<\/em> especially as guide of priests, confessor and advisor of souls in the Turin of his time;<\/li>\n<li>the task of being a \u201cspiritual guide\u201d allowed him to \u201craise up vocations,\u201d especially among women (Daughters of Charity, Daughters of Mary, the foundation of the Nazarene Sisters);<\/li>\n<li>like St. Vincent de Paul, Fr. Durando worked creatively in the area of <em>enhancing the role of<\/em><em> the laity<\/em>, directing them toward collaboration with the Daughters of Charity in the numerous \u201ccharitable groups\u201d which he established in Turin (the <em>Misericordie<\/em>);<\/li>\n<li>He did not neglect, notwithstanding the decision of superiors not to send him to the missions<em> ad gentes<\/em>, a commitment in the area of a <em>missionary spirit<\/em>: wherever he could he sent confreres; he supported the work of the \u201cCollege for Clerics of the Foreign Missions\u201d (<em>Brignole Sale Negroni <\/em>of Genoa); in a letter to Fr. Fiorillo, Assistant General, in 1841, he wrote: <em>the needs of a mission touch me.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Fr. Durando was one of the collaborators and supporters of the work of the Propagation of the Faith, whose purpose was not only to raise funds, but to make people aware of and to form in them a <em>missionary spirit<\/em>.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>2. <\/strong><strong>An invitation to be faithful to the characteristic Vincentian virtues<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Convinced that <em>the extraordinary is suspect, <\/em>Fr. Durando grew in holiness by following, as he himself loved to say, <em>a normal life<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>He found the path to holiness, in fact, in ordinary ministry, working on himself (often keeping silent and keeping himself out of the limelight). \u201cHis\u201d <em>normal life <\/em>called him above all to <em>concreteness<\/em> (cf. the well-known phrase of St. Vincent: \u2026 with<em> the sweat of one\u2019s brow\u2026<\/em>). Holiness, for Fr. Durando, was of the type that <em>nothing appeared extraordinary.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Rich in the \u201cwisdom\u201d of valuable persons, and balanced by an deep-rooted (from his character?) practical bent, he worked on \u201creeducating people, rather than complaining about institutions,\u201d from a sense that <em>evil comes from persons and not from things.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>He taught that the love of God is exemplified in accepting his will, remaining faithful to one\u2019s own commitments, practicing charity toward the neighbor, but a <em>delicate<\/em> charity, especially toward the sick. He was accustomed to recommend to his confreres to <em>preach more with good example than with words.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In becoming an example of gratuitousness and availability, he interpreted in the best way possible the five Vincentian virtues: <em>(prudence in<\/em>) humility, simplicity, meekness, mortification, and apostolic zeal. St. Vincent called these virtues the <em>five stones of David<\/em>, calling to mind the noted biblical story in 1 Sm, 17.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>3. An invitation to rethink our presence as confreres and as the Vincentian Family<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vincentians.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/02\/Marcantonio-Durando.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"150150\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/vincentians.com\/en\/three-invitations-of-blessed-fr-marcantonio-durando-to-the-vincentian-family\/marcantonio-durando\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vincentians.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/02\/Marcantonio-Durando.jpg?fit=2209%2C1821\" data-orig-size=\"2209,1821\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Marcantonio Durando\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vincentians.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/02\/Marcantonio-Durando.jpg?fit=300%2C247\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vincentians.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/02\/Marcantonio-Durando.jpg?fit=846%2C697\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-150150\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vincentians.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/02\/Marcantonio-Durando.jpg?resize=300%2C247\" alt=\"Marcantonio Durando\" width=\"300\" height=\"247\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vincentians.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/02\/Marcantonio-Durando.jpg?resize=300%2C247 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vincentians.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/02\/Marcantonio-Durando.jpg?resize=768%2C633 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vincentians.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/02\/Marcantonio-Durando.jpg?resize=1024%2C844 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vincentians.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/02\/Marcantonio-Durando.jpg?resize=100%2C82 100w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vincentians.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/02\/Marcantonio-Durando.jpg?resize=846%2C697 846w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vincentians.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/02\/Marcantonio-Durando.jpg?resize=1004%2C828 1004w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vincentians.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/02\/Marcantonio-Durando.jpg?w=1692 1692w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The many courageous intuitions that Fr. Durando left us invite the Province of Vincentians and the Vincentian Family to be \u201ccreative\u201d even in the third millennium, as St. Vincent knew how to be brilliantly creative in the 17<sup>th<\/sup> century.<\/p>\n<p>Fr. Durando lived during a time of \u201ctransition\u201d (as we are accustomed to say): after the French Revolution and after the \u201cfall of Napoleon Bonaparte.\u201d The confreres were few in number, the \u201claws of suppression\u201d provoked the <em>scattering <\/em><em>of subjects <\/em>(the dispersion, and in many cases even the abandonment of the Congregation). In so many \u201cdifficult\u201d moments he remained \u201cin the faith that everything hopes,\u201d convinced that \u201ceverything is in God\u2019s hands.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to his marked ecclesial sense (even though he could not have grow up with it in his own family of origin) Fr. Durando collaborated with everyone without distinction: in the ecclesiastical world of Turin (bishops, priests, saints), with the civil-political world (Kings Carlo Alberto and Vittorio Emmanuele II), and with the Christian people (the <em>Misericordie<\/em> foundation).<\/p>\n<p>Blessed Fr. Durando found the solution for <em>helping the poor girls who were not accepted by any Congregation in their plan to give themselves to God in service: <\/em>for them he instituted the <em>Company of Jesus of Nazareth, the Crucified.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>His was a vigilant \u201cpresence\u201d in events, as if the solution to problems depended on us, yet with the greatest trust in Divine Providence! A secret as we <em>rethink<\/em> our presence as Vincentians today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. An invitation to revive the spirituality of St. Vincent de Paul Fr. Marcantonio Durando, CM, was always \u201cfascinated\u201d by the spirituality of St. Vincent de Paul. 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