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“A father’s communication with his many children… that is one of the most agreeable occupations of my life” 1857
Eugene wanted his sons, no matter where they were around the world, to follow and live the spirit which had been given to him by God; he wanted then and now that we walk in the light of his charism, the gift of the spirit given to him to ‘share’ with the world.
For some reason as I sit here with Eugene this morning and listening to his letters written to Fr. Honorat I hear St. Paul speaking to us. They are Pauline in spirit. Again, I notice how alike Paul and Eugene are: their passionate love for God as they live in the shadow of the Cross.
I would do well perhaps to listen to them both for their messages are so similar; they both come from God. Perhaps this is what it looks like to live in God, to be so imbued with the Spirit. For a moment I am reminded of the refrain “for they’ll know we are Christians by our love, by our love…”
I would wish to be more like St Paul and St. Eugene de Mazenod; they were steadfast in their love and the message, the gifts that God imbued in them. I don’t need to find my own message and risk theirs becoming diluted or too comfortable.
I find myself agreeing with Frank’s sentiment of our broken world needing to heed their messages. My own brokenness demands that I rise above any thoughts of “my own” great mission. I am confident that if I follow and walk in the path of the missio Dei, that is God’s mission, I shall remain true to the love that God has imbued in my heart and being. I will then walk with others, each different from myself and yet as if we are ‘joined at the hip’. And they’ll know we are Christians by our love…
Oblation – what that looks like as it is lived out when we give ourselves to God. As members of the Mazenodian Family. This is how it can appear to others when we walk with Mary our Mother; when our lives become a lived response of “let it be done unto me, according to your word”.