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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 never seemed to doubt that it was God who was ‘in the driver’s seat’ of his life. He never doubted that no matter how difficult things became for him; whether those difficulties arose with the Church or his own country men. I think for a moment of when he was approaching death and he asked his sons, his brothers to remember that he died happy. He loved greatly and then he loved some more.
It can be easy to doubt that God loves us so fully that we would be invited to walk with the Lord allowing ourselves give up everything to follow him “with daring humility and trust”. During the beginning the Synodal process I listened as people shared their pain of living on the fringes of our society – young people who because they identified as 2SLGBTQ+ experienced a particular exclusion from the Church and often of our society. I was reminded of Blessed Joseph Gerard, OMI who lived his experience of loving the Basothos peoples – loving them, loving them always…
I hesitated at first but there was a inner surety that I was be invited by God to love them, to listen and walk with these beloved 2SLGBTQ+ brothers and sisters and sharing my own experience of God. I asked my pastor if we could meet in our parish meeting rooms and his response was yes, no questions. Some of us walked together in our local Pride Parade at the end of August followed by a BBQ. Next month we are holding a small retreat for them. Throughout these humble beginnings I find myself following Eugene’s model.
Never on my own would I have dared to do this, but in letting “ourselves to be led, {we then] make every effort to cooperate with his admirable designs.”
“We will let our lives be enriched by the poor and the marginalized as we work with them, for they can make us here in new ways the Gospel we proclaim…“ (R8a)