I HAD LOOKED FOR HAPPINESS OUTSIDE OF GOD

Eugene wrote about his Good Friday experience seven years after the event. During this time he had studied in the seminary, been ordained and had done 3 years of ministry. The memory of the event was still so powerful for him – and he expresses the heart of the experience in the terminology of Augustine.

Why say more? Could I ever express what I experienced then? Just the memory of it fills my heart with a sweet satisfaction. So I had looked for happiness outside of God, and outside him I found but affliction and chagrin.

Retreat Journal, December 1814, O.W. XV n.130

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