{"id":2347,"date":"2013-11-20T05:00:15","date_gmt":"2013-11-20T03:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=2347"},"modified":"2013-11-20T04:30:39","modified_gmt":"2013-11-20T02:30:39","slug":"in-the-popes-waiting-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=2347","title":{"rendered":"IN THE POPE\u2019S WAITING ROOM"},"content":{"rendered":"
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As soon as the audience begins, those designated to work that day with the Pope enter in succession. Neither Cardinals or Ambassadors came. Those who entered one after the other were the ones whom the Holy Father summoned through the Master Chamberlain. I had been forewarned I must be armed with patience because the matters which are brought to him are sometimes so numerous that there is no end to them.\u00a0<\/strong><\/h5>\n
I was in good heart that day, although I was fasting, and the large violet pouch of Mgr. the Secretary of Briefs who went in first did not dismay me; nor was I likewise by that also just as full of Cardinal Pacca, prefect of the Congregation of Bishops and Religious. Alas! I thought that perhaps one day our turn would come for our request to be laid full length in his portfolio. They both spent an hour with the Pope. The Bishop Almoner, that is to say, distributor of the alms of the Pope, and the Father Master of the Sacred Palace also had their regular audiences that day; they were not long. Who will they call next? The General of the Dominicans, whose stomach noised its hunger, would have bet that it would be he; not at all, it was I.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Letter to Henri Tempier, 22 December 1825, EO VI n 213<\/em><\/p>\n

In his diary, Eugene described the scene:<\/p>\n

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The audiences are planned on a daily basis, as I hear from those who work with the Supreme Pontiff. To inform everyone, there is a printed timetable hung up in the antechamber nearest the office of His Holiness. I waited in that one, in my role of Grand Vicar, a sort of prelature in Italy; they call us Monseigneur. Waiting until those who work with the Holy Father had gone through\u2026 I met the Archbishop of Siena, who recognized from my dress that I was French and came over to me to chat a little about France where he had been exiled during Napoleon\u2019s time. He could not get enough of praising the welcome he had received and all the kindness people had shown him. Cardinal Pacca also spoke to me and invited me to come and see him again…<\/strong><\/h5>\n
\u00a0I was the first to go in among those who had no set audience time, which astonished the Dominican Reverend Father General, who felt sure that his turn would come before mine; but since the Holy Father had called me first, I obeyed without excusing myself.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Roman Diary, 20 December 1825, EO XVII<\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201cWhen you trust God, you’re able to be more patient. Patience is not just about waiting for something… it’s about how you wait, or your attitude while waiting.\u201d \u00a0 \u00a0 Joyce Meyer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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