{"id":25,"date":"2010-05-03T15:50:18","date_gmt":"2010-05-03T13:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=25"},"modified":"2010-08-16T07:46:57","modified_gmt":"2010-08-16T05:46:57","slug":"a-project-that-certainly-comes-from-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=25","title":{"rendered":"A PROJECT THAT CERTAINLY COMES FROM GOD"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eugene had done a thorough process of discernment – and had been told by his spiritual director that his priestly vocation was \u201cas clear as the noonday sun.\u201d Once he had understood this as God\u2019s will, he never wavered in his conviction and finally finds the courage to write to his mother to tell her:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Darling mamma, before I shared with you the designs the Lord\u2019s mercy has for me, I wanted to ask my uncle to broach the subject with you, to help you to see the thing in its true light and so as not to upset you unintentionally, as I know how tender your heart is. However many pains one may take to explain something in a letter, it is difficult to foresee every objection or even the different perceptions people have.<\/span><\/strong><\/h6>\n
That is why I asked my uncle, a man worthy of appreciating God\u2019s ways, to communicate to you the Master\u2019s designs we are all bound to obey on pain of damnation, to answer any objections you might make, in short, through telling you my reasons, to get your approval for a project that certainly comes from God, as it has passed all the tests required of any inspiration that seems unusual, and it has been sanctioned by all the persons who hold his place in my regard\u2026<\/span><\/strong><\/h6>\n<\/blockquote>\n

He then gives the reasons he sees for becoming a priest, and we see here the kernel of what he lived for the rest of his life:<\/span><\/p>\n

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As the Lord is my witness, what he wants of me is that I renounce a world where it is almost impossible to find salvation, such is the power of apostasy there;<\/strong><\/h6>\n
–\u00a0 that I devote myself especially to his service and<\/strong><\/h6>\n
–\u00a0 try to reawaken the faith that is becoming extinct amongst the poor;<\/strong><\/h6>\n
–\u00a0 in a word, that I make myself available to carry out any orders he may wish to give me for his glory and the salvation of souls he has redeemed by his precious blood<\/strong><\/h6>\n<\/blockquote>\n

(First letter to his mother in which he speaks about his vocation to the priesthood
\non June 29, 1808 in OW XIV n.27.)<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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