{"id":2744,"date":"2015-01-19T05:00:39","date_gmt":"2015-01-19T03:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=2744"},"modified":"2015-01-13T15:24:50","modified_gmt":"2015-01-13T13:24:50","slug":"there-is-not-a-single-task-throughout-the-day-which-is-pleasant-to-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=2744","title":{"rendered":"THERE IS NOT A SINGLE TASK THROUGHOUT THE DAY WHICH IS PLEASANT TO ME"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
As the year 1827 drew to a close, Eugene found himself overburdened by the responsibilities and boredom of his desk-bound work as Vicar General of Marseille. One can touch his pain as he reads Fr Honorat\u2019s description of the successes of the parish missions of the Oblates, and his longing to be back in that ministry that he loved so passionately.<\/p>\n
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… All that you add completes the picture of these fine missions and increases my gratitude. If only I could take a more direct part in them! But my sins keep me in the servitude of an infinity of other occupations of which none is to my liking; no, there is not a single task throughout the day which is pleasant to me and which I do not offer to God with a sort of bitterness in expiation of my sins, so burdensome are they all and hard to accomplish. What subjects of woe! What anxieties that ceaselessly recur! I am sometimes sick to death of them and have no one to console me.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Letter to Jean Baptiste Honorat, 12 December 1827, EO VII n 288<\/em><\/p>\n

Despite the daily drudgery, he offered it all to God in the spirit of oblation which he learnt from the Oblate Cross that he wore all the time.<\/p>\n

How present do I allow God to be in the dreary moments that I face each day?<\/p>\n

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\u201cDo I allow myself to be taken up by God, to be embraced by him, or do I prevent him from drawing close?\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 Pope Francis<\/p>\n

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