{"id":1884,"date":"2013-01-14T05:00:14","date_gmt":"2013-01-14T03:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=1884"},"modified":"2013-01-14T05:00:18","modified_gmt":"2013-01-14T03:00:18","slug":"in-the-presence-of-the-same-lord","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=1884","title":{"rendered":"IN THE PRESENCE OF THE SAME LORD"},"content":{"rendered":"

Despite all their ministry engagements, Eugene always insisted that the Missionaries come together to celebrate the Easter mysteries as a family in their communities. Being in Paris, this was the first time in 7 years that he was not with his community in Aix for these ceremonies, and he wrote on Holy Thursday:<\/p>\n

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My heart was sad, my dear Court\u00e8s, as I came back from the church where I had just offered the Mass with people I did not know, in a somewhat alien land, so to speak, far from you from whom I have never been separated on this memorable day. Yes, it is the first time since our coming together that I have not celebrated Easter with my brothers. I am inconsolable over this immense privation. To soften my grief, I said Mass quite close to the time that I knew you would be assembled, Dominicam Coenam manducare <\/strong>[ed. \u201cTo eat the Lord\u2019s Supper\u201d]<\/em><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Being away, he resorted to his usual means of being united with his religious family in prayer: oraison<\/p>\n

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But, although in the presence of the same Lord, my heart felt all the weight of the distance which separates us and while, thanks to the arrangement I had made, we were celebrating at the same time the same mysteries, we nevertheless did not celebrate together and my isolation in such a circumstance wrenched sighs from me even at the altar, seeing that I was not surrounded by my excellent and beloved family.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Letter to Hippolyte Court\u00e8s, 27 March 1823, EO VI n 98<\/em><\/p>\n

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“The deepest of level of communication is not communication, but communion. It is wordless … beyond speech … beyond concept.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Thomas Merton<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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