{"id":2461,"date":"2014-01-09T05:00:34","date_gmt":"2014-01-09T03:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=2461"},"modified":"2014-03-04T16:59:56","modified_gmt":"2014-03-04T14:59:56","slug":"tricked-by-a-future-pope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=2461","title":{"rendered":"TRICKED BY A FUTURE POPE"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u2026 our poor Society which will apparently never have peace on this earth, as seemingly those who persecute her take turns to relieve one another so as not to give us time to catch our breath\u2026<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Exasperated by all the obstacles on the road to the approbation of the Oblates. Eugene gives yet another example to Henri Tempier. The person he was referring to was Cardinal Castiglioni, who, three years later in 1829, would become Pope Pius VIII.<\/p>\n

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My overtures today, January 2, have not given me much satisfaction. I met a Cardinal upon whom I thought I should be able to count because it is he who approached me, having called me to him at the Vatican chapel yesterday in order to voice aloud the desire he had to make my acquaintance\u2026<\/strong><\/h5>\n
In short, he gave me an appointment for this morning at nine o\u2019clock\u2026 He was in such good vein and the fine things he said on this subject made me believe quite simply that I had made a fortunate find. So I expressed my regret to him that he was not a member of the Congregation which had to judge our cause and, with a view to his giving me a good recommendation to those who compose it, I had the guilelessness to speak to him frankly and in detail of our affair.<\/strong><\/h5>\n
What was my surprise on finding his attitude quite opposed to that of the Pope! It was pitiable to see the objections that he made to me\u2026<\/strong><\/h5>\n
Oh! how I fumed! Fortunately I was fasting, otherwise the violent reaction that I had would have been capable of impeding my digestion.<\/strong><\/h5>\n
My whole fear is that he may speak to the Pope in the same way as to me and that this nonsense may have an adverse effect on the Holy Father, who has shown himself up to now so favorable, as you will have been able to judge from all I have consigned to you in my second last letter\u2026<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/h5>\n
The turn of events annoys me. I know that in all affairs, there are ups and downs, happy moments, shocks and setbacks; but it is hard to have on one\u2019s side the assent and goodwill of the Pope, the only true judge, and then to have these grim formalities threatening us with a result not different from that which so many others have obtained, in whose favour the Pope has not pronounced himself \u2026 Redouble your prayers. The result will perhaps be different from what appearances make us presume.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Letter to Henri Tempier, 2 January 1826, EO VII n 215<\/em><\/p>\n

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“To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.” \u00a0\u00a0Erich Fromm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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