{"id":2502,"date":"2014-02-26T05:00:41","date_gmt":"2014-02-26T03:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=2502"},"modified":"2014-02-26T04:36:23","modified_gmt":"2014-02-26T02:36:23","slug":"an-oblate-savoring-the-oblation-of-jesus-christ-in-the-eucharist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=2502","title":{"rendered":"AN OBLATE SAVORING THE OBLATION OF JESUS CHRIST IN THE EUCHARIST"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the difficult journey in Rome towards approbation of the Oblate congregation, it was Eugene\u2019s intimacy with God that gave him the strength and blessings he needed. This was especially the case when he became one with Jesus in Communion at Mass.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>It was especially at communion, when our divine\u00a0Savior\u00a0is on\u00a0the point of giving us the utmost proof of his love that I was prompted to abandon myself to all the sentiments that his divine presence and the immensity of his mercy inspired at that precious moment in my miserable soul, never better felt than when I see him not despising a sinner like me.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Letter to Henri Tempier, 16 February 1826, EO VII n 224<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJesus didn&#8217;t say, &#8216;Blessed are those who care for the poor.&#8217; He said, &#8216;Blessed are we where we are poor, where we are broken.&#8217; It is there that God loves us deeply and pulls us into deeper communion with himself.\u201d \u00a0 \u00a0 Henri Nouwen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the difficult journey in Rome towards approbation of the Oblate congregation, it was Eugene\u2019s intimacy with God that gave him the strength and blessings he needed. This was especially the case when he became one with Jesus in Communion &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=2502\">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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[97,64,12],"class_list":["post-2502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters","tag-approbation-of-congregation","tag-eucharist","tag-oblation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2502","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=2502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}