{"id":2477,"date":"2014-01-28T05:00:09","date_gmt":"2014-01-28T03:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=2477"},"modified":"2014-01-27T14:05:13","modified_gmt":"2014-01-27T12:05:13","slug":"i-have-been-again-today-to-seek-new-strength-and-invoke-abundant-help-on-the-tomb-of-the-holy-apostles-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=2477","title":{"rendered":"I HAVE BEEN AGAIN TODAY TO SEEK NEW STRENGTH AND INVOKE ABUNDANT HELP ON THE TOMB OF THE HOLY APOSTLES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">What gave Eugene the inner strength to keep him going?<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>January 16. &#8211; I am utterly wearied by the delay which our affair is suffering. I have been again today to seek new strength and invoke abundant help on the tomb of the holy Apostles; I have said Mass for the third time on the altar of confession of Saint Peter and I declare that the good God compensated me by his grace for the troubles that hell is provoking against us.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>I invoked St. Peter with all my heart and he proved that he knew how to be a good patron.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Prayerful communion with God together with the saints \u2013 and with his Oblate brothers, with whom he was always united.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>I profited from the opportunity to recommend you all most earnestly to God. I prayed for an ample share for all of you in the virtues and rewards of this great Apostle.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Letter to Henri Tempier, 17 January 1826, EO VII n 218<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In his Diary. he repeats the same sentiment:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>This time I certainly did not overlook to recommend by name everyone whose salvation is of special concern to me; they will surely repay me by their prayers and the share they give me in all their merits.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Roman Diary, 16 January 1826, EO XVII<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Our Rule of Life today:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is as missionaries that we worship, in the various ways the Spirit suggests to us. We come before him bearing with us the daily pressures of our anxiety for those to whom he sends us. Our life in all its dimensions is a prayer that, in us and through us, God&#8217;s kingdom come.\u201d CC&amp;RR, Constitution 32<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What gave Eugene the inner strength to keep him going? January 16. &#8211; I am utterly wearied by the delay which our affair is suffering. I have been again today to seek new strength and invoke abundant help on the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=2477\">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":[54,39],"tags":[36,26],"class_list":["post-2477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diary","category-letters","tag-community","tag-prayer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2477","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=2477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}