While looking forward to Victor Arnoux\u2019s ordination, Eugene received the news that this young man had become seriously ill.<\/p>\n
\nI will speak first of what concerns me most, this being the state of our holy Bro. Arnoux. I cannot console myself while knowing he is at grips with death, and it seems I hear at every moment some fatal announcement.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n
The scholastic, Arnoux\u2019s parents were known to Eugene and so he expresses his concern for them.<\/p>\n
\nMy sorrow increases with the grief in which I see his truly good father, abounding with wisdom as with religion. He would be appreciative to know precisely the state of the malady for both he and his wife would be in despair were their dear child to die without their having had the consolation of seeing and embracing him. Write to him then directly to tell him frankly how things are and whether in putting off their appearance at Aix until the time of the fair of Beaucaire, that is to say, towards the 16th of next month, they may run the risk of not seeing their child again. You can state frankly the situation just as it is. If the case is urgent, whatever the affairs which keep them at Gap, they will leave everything ….<\/strong><\/h5>\n
I am not in favour that we send away from our communities our sick when they are in danger of death. They have the right to a care of the best order and the consolation of dying in the arms of their brothers is certainly something for a good religious who knows the value of supernatural aids.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Letter to Hippolyte Court\u00e8s, 26 June 1826, EO VII n 249<\/em><\/p>\n
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\u201cIf a man hasn’t discovered something that he will die for, he isn’t fit to live.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 Martin Luther King, Jr.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
While looking forward to Victor Arnoux\u2019s ordination, Eugene received the news that this young man had become seriously ill. I will speak first of what concerns me most, this being the state of our holy Bro. Arnoux. I cannot console … Continue reading