{"id":2745,"date":"2015-01-20T05:00:34","date_gmt":"2015-01-20T03:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=2745"},"modified":"2015-01-13T15:28:42","modified_gmt":"2015-01-13T13:28:42","slug":"we-have-to-live-with-the-consequences-of-our-choices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=2745","title":{"rendered":"WE HAVE TO LIVE WITH THE CONSEQUENCES OF OUR CHOICES"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
New year greetings to Fr. Court\u00e8s became the occasion for Eugene to lament about the situation in which he found himself. His passion for preaching and evangelization ran deep in his veins \u2013 and his example had brought many to imitate his zeal as Oblates. Yet, here he found himself imprisoned in an office as Vicar General of Marseille without the possibility of doing what he loved so much: evangelize the most abandoned.<\/p>\n
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I wish a happy New Year to my very dear Fr. Court\u00e8s and to all his community and, as usual, I am in too much of a hurry to say anything else to him; the clutter on my desk is such that I cannot put a lamp on it. It is just as if I had nothing to do. I no longer feel I have the strength to continue at this work. If my conscience had not kept me at it, I would have long since forsaken it but my responsibility frightens me somewhat or rather I should say considerably.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n

He admits, however, that he was the one who landed himself in this situation. Firstly in 1817 when he pushed the nomination of his uncle Fortune\u2019 as Bishop of Marseille, and again in 1823 when Fortune\u2019 was eventually appointed and ordained Bishop of Marseille, Eugene had devoted himself to this cause for the sake fo the survival of the Oblates and for the good of the people of Marseille, who had experienced religious abandonment as a result of the Revolution.<\/p>\n

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When I speak of responsibility, I mean that which I contracted in 1817 and in 1823. I thought I acted for the best and it is possible that I did so. I see fortunate results for religion every day but I did not think enough of my own interest, of my (need for) rest, of the sacrifice of my entire existence with the additional unpleasantness of being bound down so that, as I am in an essentially dependent position, I cannot do half the good I would wish to do and even what I am happy to do cannot be done as I feel it ought to be done.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Letter to Hippolyte Court\u00e8s, 2 January 1828, EO VII n 289<\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201cIn this life, we have to make many choices. Some are very important choices. Some are not. Many of our choices are between good and evil. The choices we make, however, determine to a large extent our happiness or our unhappiness, because we have to live with the consequences of our choices.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 James E. Faust<\/p>\n

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