{"id":2085,"date":"2013-05-22T05:00:13","date_gmt":"2013-05-22T03:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=2085"},"modified":"2013-05-22T04:54:50","modified_gmt":"2013-05-22T02:54:50","slug":"who-is-saint-eugene-eugene-the-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=2085","title":{"rendered":"WHO IS SAINT EUGENE? EUGENE THE CHILD"},"content":{"rendered":"

(On the occasion of the Oblate novena – May 21 – May 29 –\u00a0I am going to re-publish the entries that I had prepared<\/span> two years ago on various aspects of the life of Eugene de Mazenod.\u00a0This daily reflection has\u00a0a much larger following now and I think it worthwhile to remind\u00a0our readers of the key elements of Eugene’s life and their significance.)<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/h4>\n

\u00a01 August 1782 – birth in Aix en Provence. Son of Charles Antoine de Mazenod, President of the Court of Accounts, and of Marie Rose Joannis.<\/p>\n

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I have not changed over the years. I idolize my family.<\/strong><\/h5>\n
I would let myself be cut up into little pieces for some members of my family, and that stretches out to quite a long way for I would give my life without hesitation for my father, mother, grandmother, my sister and my father’s two brothers.<\/strong><\/h5>\n
Generally speaking I love with passion everybody I believe loves me, but theirs must be a passionate love too.<\/strong><\/h5>\n
So gratitude is the final constituent that goes to make up my heart’s passion.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Self-evaluation written for his spiritual director in 1808, O.W. XIV n. 30<\/em><\/p>\n

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It is hard to understand, given the portrait of myself I have just painted, how sensitive a heart I have, overly so in fact. It would take too long to give you all the stories of my childhood traits I have had related to me and which are really rather surprising.<\/strong><\/h5>\n
It was quite normal for me to give away my breakfast even when I was hungry to satisfy the hunger of the poor, I used to bring firewood to people who complained of the cold and of not being able to afford to buy it, on one occasion I went as far as to give away the clothes off my back to clothe a poor person, and many, many other stories in the same vein.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Self-evaluation written for his spiritual director in 1808, O.W. XIV n. 30<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(On the occasion of the Oblate novena – May 21 – May 29 –\u00a0I am going to re-publish the entries that I had prepared two years ago on various aspects of the life of Eugene de Mazenod.\u00a0This daily reflection has\u00a0a … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-2085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings","tag-youth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2085\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}