You, you alone will be the only object to which will tend all my affections and my every action. To please you, act for your glory, will be my daily task, the task of every moment of my life. I wish to live only for you, I wish to love you alone and all else in you and through you.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Notes made during the retreat in preparation for priestly ordination, December 1-21, E.O. XIV n.95<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cI wish to love you alone and all else in you and through you\u201d gives us the method.<\/strong> Eugene\u2019s spirituality is built on his God-centered focus. We can call his spirituality the way in which his experience and understanding of God, himself and his world was expressed in action. Using Philip Sheldrake\u2019s definition (quoted below) as a guide, we can say that to study Eugene\u2019s spirituality is to explore how his understanding of God, the human person and the world were expressed in a set of values, in a style of life and in spiritual practices as the context for transformation and mission.<\/p>\n \u201cI wish to love you alone and all else in you and through you\u201d gives us the content<\/strong> of Eugene\u2019s spirituality and the direction to follow. In the following weeks we will explore Eugene\u2019s experience of God and how this was expressed in the \u201call else\u201d of every aspect of his life understood \u201cin God\u201d and \u201cthrough God.\u201d<\/p>\n To complete the picture, this Mazenodian spirituality has been lived for 200 years, and we also need to explore how it has been understood and lived by the religious and lay members of the Mazenodian family<\/strong> for two centuries.<\/p>\n \u201cI wish to love you alone and all else in you and through you\u201d poses a question to each of us today \u2013 what is my basic understanding of my spirituality?<\/p>\n \u201cIn Christian terms, spirituality refers to the way our fundamental values, lifestyles, and spiritual practices As we explore our understanding of Mazenodian spirituality, I need to pose the question: \u201cWhat do I mean by using the word spirituality\u201d? Eugene himself gave me the answer when he wrote: You, you alone will be the only object … Continue reading ![\"200\"](\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/200.png\")
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\nas the context for human transformation.\u201d \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0Philip Sheldrake<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"