{"id":2808,"date":"2015-05-08T04:57:36","date_gmt":"2015-05-08T02:57:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=2808"},"modified":"2015-05-08T04:57:36","modified_gmt":"2015-05-08T02:57:36","slug":"i-have-all-my-life-desired-to-die-a-victim-of-charity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=2808","title":{"rendered":"I HAVE ALL MY LIFE DESIRED TO DIE A VICTIM OF CHARITY"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Borzaga<\/a><\/p>\n

Eugene\u2019s own experience of living \u201call for God\u201d \u2013 oblation – made him sensitive to all manifestations of this in others. How proud he must be when he sees so many of his Oblate sons giving their lives in the supreme act of oblation. Mario Borzaga\u2019s act of oblation, together with his catechist, in Laos was the highest expression of \u201call for God.\u201d<\/p>\n

This picture of the young Father Mario Borzaga celebrating Mass reminds us of Eugene\u2019s own first Mass, which had as his intention:<\/p>\n

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Final perseverance, and even martyrdom or at least death while tending victims of the plague, or any other kind of death for God\u2019s glory or the salvation of souls.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n

One of the intention for which he offered his first Mass, E.O. XIV n.100<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0Eugene touched death when he was serving the Austrian prisoners in Aix, but never became a martyr. Instead he was led to understand that oblation for God and others called him to a different martyrdom: giving his life in charity for others. Thirty five years later, it is clear that this remained an ideal for him.<\/p>\n

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I have all my life desired to die a victim of charity. You know that this crown was withheld from me right from the first days of my ministry. The Lord had his designs since He wanted to trust me to give a new family to His Church; but for me it would have been a greater value to have died of the blessed typhus which I had contracted while serving prisoners.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Letter to Henri Tempier, 12 September 1849, E.O. X n.1018<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0Mario Borzaga died a victim of charity in his service of the Laotian people. Mario was not the only son of Eugene to give his life for the people of Laos, the cause of five of his Oblate martyr companions is also awaiting the Pope\u2019s recognition.<\/p>\n

If we are inspired by Eugene\u2019s charism, we too are called to a life of being \u201cmartyrs of charity\u201d in our everyday lives.<\/p>\n

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\u201cLove is all, it gives all, and it takes all.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 Soren Kierkegaard<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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