{"id":2605,"date":"2014-07-22T05:00:47","date_gmt":"2014-07-22T03:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=2605"},"modified":"2014-07-09T19:57:09","modified_gmt":"2014-07-09T17:57:09","slug":"even-if-we-have-to-sell-everything-down-to-our-shoes-let-nothing-be-spared-to-look-after-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=2605","title":{"rendered":"EVEN IF WE HAVE TO SELL EVERYTHING DOWN TO OUR SHOES, LET NOTHING BE SPARED TO LOOK AFTER HIM"},"content":{"rendered":"

Arriving in Turin, Eugene found mail from Marseille, containing news of the serious illness of Jacques Marcou. He had been one of the first members of Eugene\u2019s youth congregation in Aix in 1813 and had joined the Oblates in 1821. Eugene had a fatherly affection for this young man, whom he had known since childhood (cf\u00a0https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=1763<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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The first thing to which I reply, because it affects me to the depths of my soul, is the sad news of the dangerous illness of our good Fr. Marcou. I am desolate because so rare is recovery in such cases that I cannot cajole myself into believing I shall see him cured. However some I have met here and there who, even advanced in age, have spit and vomited blood; so you must not lose courage and especially do not fail to give hope to the sick man. <\/span><\/strong><\/h5>\n
I need not tell you with what care and charity you must treat him. Even if we have to sell everything down to our shoes, let nothing be spared to look after him; <\/span><\/strong><\/h5>\n
if his relatives were to propose that they take him home, do not consent; it is amongst his brothers that he ought to find all the services his condition demands, day and night, spiritual as well as temporal. <\/span><\/strong><\/h5>\n
The only thing I recommend to you is to take all suitable precautions lest, if sadly it happens to this dear Father to fall into consumption, that our other young Fathers may not be thus exposed to some unfortunate contagion; you must mark all that he uses, etc. After that, or better say, above all, we must pray every day that the good God may preserve this good Father, if such be his holy will. I will say Mass for him for I have taken the resolution to reserve my Masses for the Society. Write something on my behalf to Fr. Marcou, to show him my very sincere and very lively affection. <\/span><\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Letter to Henri Tempier, 24 May 1826, EO VII n 242<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201cWithout a sense of caring, there can be no sense of community.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Anthony J. D’Angelo<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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