Message from Bret
Recently I traveled to Ottawa with others from Bayard Canada and France to sign the renewed licensing contract between Bayard Canada, Saint Paul University, and Bayard Inc. (USA). This agreement renews our valued partnerships with the University, the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate, and our colleagues in Canada and authorizes us to continue to publish Living with Christ in service to the Church in America. The term of the agreement extends this authorization and our collaboration to 2018.
What follows, is the talk shared by Rev. Dale M. Schlitt, O.M.I. (Rector of Saint Paul University) at the conclusion of the agreement signing. I think his insights address well our valued relationship, the ministry of the Oblates, and the significance of Living with Christ in our effort to serve God's people.
On this happy occasion we gather to sign a series of documents that will renew the partnership between Bayard Press Canada Inc - represented here today by Father Marcel Poirier, President of Bayard's Board of Directors, and Ms. Suzanne Spino, President of Bayard Press Canada Inc. - and the University of Saint Paul. We also have the honor of welcoming among us Mr. Bruno Frappat, President of Bayard Inc, as well as Mr. Hubert Chicou, CEO for the Americas and General Delegate Director for Bayard; Mr. Ronald Albert, Director General of Bayard Canada's religious division; and Mr. Bret Thomas, President of Bayard Inc (USA). A warm welcome to everyone.
We now have the experience of several years of warm and fruitful collaboration between Bayard and Saint Paul. We work together first of all to produce materials in support of our Churches and Christian communities as they carry out their evangelizing mission in the twenty-first century. In our desire as well to serve the increasingly diverse societies in which we live, we collaborate more and more in the production and distribution of materials that will enhance the spiritual lives of those around us and encourage the development of ever more just and caring societies.
This is an adventure we are taking together, and despite the numerous challenges we face, we boldly dream of helping our churches and communities become more Christ-like in love and compassion each day.
Here in Canada we confront some particular challenges that stem from the declining interest of many Canadians, both French- and English-speaking, in institutional religion. As fewer and fewer priests are ordained, we also ask ourselves how our Catholic churches can continue to prosper. In the United States we face similar problems. There, however, the market, although difficult to penetrate, is vast and full of possibility, as exemplified by Novalis, through which we provide our readers with materials to enrich their prayer lives. I suspect, then, that not only our English edition of the Sunday missal Living With Chris, but also the forthcoming Spanish edition, will meet with clear success.
Before closing, I would like to take a moment to thank all those who have worked so hard to review our wonderful, collaborative relationship and to develop fine texts that will facilitate our working together in partnership over the coming years. I am thinking especially of Ms. Suzanne Spino and Mr. Ronald Albert from Bayard, and Dr. Chantal Beauvais and Mr. Michael O'Hearn from Saint Paul.
The Oblate Founder, Bishop Eugene DeMazenod, wrote back in the early 1800's that the Oblates should leave nothing undared, Nillinquendum inausum, in their efforts to spread the Gospel. I understand that the first Augustinians of the Assumption took their public vows in 1851, and swore to combat irreligion in a Europe suffering from the doubt sown by,
among others, Voltaine and Diderot. They used all legitimate means and approaches they could think of to lead others to embrace the Gospel. May we together, Bayard and Saint
Paul, be ever faithful to these imperatives. Ad multos annos.
I want to thank Julie Rattey for translating the French text into English.
Thought for the Day
Only for today, I will do one good deed and not tell anyone about it.
From “Ten Commandments for My Life” composed by Pope John XXIII
Recently I traveled to Ottawa with others from Bayard Canada and France to sign the renewed licensing contract between Bayard Canada, Saint Paul University, and Bayard Inc. (USA). This agreement renews our valued partnerships with the University, the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate, and our colleagues in Canada and authorizes us to continue to publish Living with Christ in service to the Church in America. The term of the agreement extends this authorization and our collaboration to 2018.
What follows, is the talk shared by Rev. Dale M. Schlitt, O.M.I. (Rector of Saint Paul University) at the conclusion of the agreement signing. I think his insights address well our valued relationship, the ministry of the Oblates, and the significance of Living with Christ in our effort to serve God's people.
On this happy occasion we gather to sign a series of documents that will renew the partnership between Bayard Press Canada Inc - represented here today by Father Marcel Poirier, President of Bayard's Board of Directors, and Ms. Suzanne Spino, President of Bayard Press Canada Inc. - and the University of Saint Paul. We also have the honor of welcoming among us Mr. Bruno Frappat, President of Bayard Inc, as well as Mr. Hubert Chicou, CEO for the Americas and General Delegate Director for Bayard; Mr. Ronald Albert, Director General of Bayard Canada's religious division; and Mr. Bret Thomas, President of Bayard Inc (USA). A warm welcome to everyone.
We now have the experience of several years of warm and fruitful collaboration between Bayard and Saint Paul. We work together first of all to produce materials in support of our Churches and Christian communities as they carry out their evangelizing mission in the twenty-first century. In our desire as well to serve the increasingly diverse societies in which we live, we collaborate more and more in the production and distribution of materials that will enhance the spiritual lives of those around us and encourage the development of ever more just and caring societies.
This is an adventure we are taking together, and despite the numerous challenges we face, we boldly dream of helping our churches and communities become more Christ-like in love and compassion each day.
Here in Canada we confront some particular challenges that stem from the declining interest of many Canadians, both French- and English-speaking, in institutional religion. As fewer and fewer priests are ordained, we also ask ourselves how our Catholic churches can continue to prosper. In the United States we face similar problems. There, however, the market, although difficult to penetrate, is vast and full of possibility, as exemplified by Novalis, through which we provide our readers with materials to enrich their prayer lives. I suspect, then, that not only our English edition of the Sunday missal Living With Chris, but also the forthcoming Spanish edition, will meet with clear success.
Before closing, I would like to take a moment to thank all those who have worked so hard to review our wonderful, collaborative relationship and to develop fine texts that will facilitate our working together in partnership over the coming years. I am thinking especially of Ms. Suzanne Spino and Mr. Ronald Albert from Bayard, and Dr. Chantal Beauvais and Mr. Michael O'Hearn from Saint Paul.
The Oblate Founder, Bishop Eugene DeMazenod, wrote back in the early 1800's that the Oblates should leave nothing undared, Nillinquendum inausum, in their efforts to spread the Gospel. I understand that the first Augustinians of the Assumption took their public vows in 1851, and swore to combat irreligion in a Europe suffering from the doubt sown by,
among others, Voltaine and Diderot. They used all legitimate means and approaches they could think of to lead others to embrace the Gospel. May we together, Bayard and Saint
Paul, be ever faithful to these imperatives. Ad multos annos.
I want to thank Julie Rattey for translating the French text into English.
Thought for the Day
Only for today, I will do one good deed and not tell anyone about it.
From “Ten Commandments for My Life” composed by Pope John XXIII
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