{"id":2198,"date":"2013-07-19T05:00:13","date_gmt":"2013-07-19T03:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=2198"},"modified":"2013-07-17T21:46:36","modified_gmt":"2013-07-17T19:46:36","slug":"one-who-puts-a-hand-to-the-plough-and-looks-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=2198","title":{"rendered":"ONE WHO PUTS A HAND TO THE PLOUGH AND LOOKS BACK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eugene was so totally convinced of the magnificence of the Oblate vocation and of the obligation to remain faithful to the vows that had been pronounced by the Oblates, that he could not understand how anyone could go back on their word. His harsh reactions when this happened were based on the words of Jesus: &#8220;<em>No one who puts a hand to the plow and looks back is fit for service in the kingdom of God<\/em>&#8221; (Luke 9:62). Each time that it happened he saw it as a repetition of the dire consequences of the actions of Judas Iscariot \u2013 it was a betrayal of Jesus, and a self-condemnation by the person concerned.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>When shall we eradicate the seed of Ischariotism amongst us, dear friend, what horror to see repeated unceasingly the most revolting betrayals! It would seem that such monsters should be more rare.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Letter to Henri Tempier, 22 June 1825, EO VI n 184<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Our Rule of life points out the ideal for us:<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Jesus \u201calways loved those who were his own in the world,\u201d and to the very end \u201che showed how perfect his love was\u201d (Jn 13: 1). His Spirit inspires all Christians to constancy in their love. The same Spirit develops in us a close attachment to the Congregation. Our perseverance is thus a sign of Christ&#8217;s fidelity to the Father<\/em>.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 CC&amp;RR, Constitution 29<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLife is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Marie Curie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eugene was so totally convinced of the magnificence of the Oblate vocation and of the obligation to remain faithful to the vows that had been pronounced by the Oblates, that he could not understand how anyone could go back on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=2198\">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":[8],"class_list":["post-2198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters","tag-vocation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2198","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=2198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}