IN OUR RESURRECTED STATE, WE WILL DIE NO MORE

 Our Lord wanted to experience in his mortal life all the fortunes mortals are heir to, the fortunes of that mortal nature he had assumed in his mysterious Incarnation […] He espoused our cause to the extent of identifying with us. […]
In this wonderful union of Jesus Christ and our souls lies the mystery of our participation in his grace, his glory. […] [The feast of Easter] is ratification of the dignity of other feasts. […] What the Church desires is that we should enter into the spirit of other feasts. They are a sort of journeying toward the great solemnity of the Resurrection; they lay before us the entire life of our Lord who was bound to be born, live and die in order to resurrect; they are distributed throughout the year like wayside stations so that we can restore our strength from time to time on our pilgrimage toward the happy destination where, in our resurrected state, we will die no more.”

Bishop Eugene de Mazenod, Lenten pastoral of February 1846.

Quoted in https://www.omiworld.org/lemma/mazenod-eugene-de/ 

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1 Response to IN OUR RESURRECTED STATE, WE WILL DIE NO MORE

  1. Eleanor Rabnett, Oblate Associate says:

    I am not sure that I have the words to describe my heart’s response to this morning’s sharing; I am filled with the immensity of wonder and love – with a state of being that surpasses the words which have led me here.

    I want to echo Gilbert Bertrand’s love for the Founder. It is something we all share in together. I think for a moment of the phrase “walking in the footsteps of St. Eugene de Mazenod”; much more than a simple retracing of the steps that he took in particular locations in this world.

    It is stepping into, being ‘in communion with’ on our journey home to our “happy destination”. It is all a part of that which is so much bigger than each of us individually. It began with Jesus espousing himself and identifying with us. The ‘wayside stations’ that the Church has placed along our journey and which Eugene sheds a light on; and not just Eugene but also his sons and daughters who share with us their own experiences – we are all connected with each other, ‘in communion’ with and united in love.

    We are lavished with Easter love as we move through this first week of Easter. This has become my food for the day. “Give us today our daily bread…” – here we are fed and formed. This too is the ‘ongoing St. Sulpice’ of our lives. I give thanks.

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