{"id":2189,"date":"2013-07-15T05:00:38","date_gmt":"2013-07-15T03:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=2189"},"modified":"2013-07-14T16:01:33","modified_gmt":"2013-07-14T14:01:33","slug":"we-give-thanks-to-god-for-having-chosen-from-our-family-a-privileged-soul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=2189","title":{"rendered":"WE GIVE THANKS TO GOD FOR HAVING CHOSEN FROM OUR FAMILY A PRIVILEGED SOUL"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Our angel flew off to heaven, last night at three o\u2019clock.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Letter to Marius Suzanne, 26 June 1825, EO VI n188<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Writing to his mother about, his niece, Caroline de Boisgelin\u2019s illness and death, Eugene said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>She always spoke of heaven and of the happiness of being in the presence of God with the simplicity and assurance of a child going back to her home with joy to rest in the embrace of her Father. No death struggles, and not the least fear of death; on the contrary, this thought only amused her because, with an idea far older than her age, she saw death as the beginning of her real happiness and she only spoke of it calmly and with her heart at peace.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Once you know all these details, you will not be able to prevent yourself any more than us of entering into sentiments of adoration and enchantment. In all this there is something extraordinary and totally supernatural. If it were someone aged twenty, I would be edified, but in a twelve year old it is marvelous, it is a prodigy. How can one ever understand that a child of this age never consented to unite her prayers to those of us praying for her healing?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>\u2026 Dear and good mother, let us thus arm ourselves with strength and with courage. Let us rekindle our faith, and stifle our natural reactions as we give thanks to God for having chosen from our family a privileged soul, an angel who, having already entered into her glory, will praise God eternally and be our advocate in our needs.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Letter to his mother, 28 June 1825, General Archives Rome, AGR MJ I-1<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI&#8217;ve told my children that when I die, to release balloons in the sky to celebrate that I graduated. For me, death is a graduation.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Elisabeth Kubler-Ross<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our angel flew off to heaven, last night at three o\u2019clock. Letter to Marius Suzanne, 26 June 1825, EO VI n188 Writing to his mother about, his niece, Caroline de Boisgelin\u2019s illness and death, Eugene said: She always spoke of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=2189\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[39],"tags":[46,125],"class_list":["post-2189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters","tag-death","tag-eugenes-family"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2189","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=2189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}