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“A father’s communication with his many children… that is one of the most agreeable occupations of my life” 1857
For a moment I start to ask myself how is it that Eugene is always there for God to work through him; and stop to laugh at myself. This is not Eugene making up a tales or even necessarily embellishing to make himself look good. What it is is him making himself available for God to work through him and then seeing others through the eyes of love is emboldened to not only notice what can be done but also (when necessary) getting others to help him and ensure that all of their needs are met. Even though he is now a Bishop and a very busy man he never fails to see what is needed and then ensuring that it is done. He did not wait to see what would happen to those people in quarantine but saw to it that they were attended to even as they were dying.
With the pandemic we have discovered many different ways of doing this ourselves.
Eugene looked and saw those who were seemingly abandoned as being predestined to glory – that is being like the lost sheep that the shepherd goes out to look for, finding it and then carrying it, bringing it back to where it belongs, – on his shoulders if need be.
I again think of Wrembek’s “Hope for Judas” and the depiction of Jesus carrying the hanged Judas home to the Father on his shoulders.
I pause and look at who in my life has done that for/with me – finding me when I appeared to be lost and then walking with me as to ensure that all my needs are met.
Eugene once again becoming a model of oblation, as he lives out the way that Jesus himself along with his disciples lived.