I’m quite on bad terms with the Galliffet family; they have pushed their discourtesy to the limit by not inviting me to a grand supper for more than 150 people they gave the last day of carnival. It’s not the supper that I regret, because I never sup in the world; but I find their determination to leave me out too impertinent.<\/strong><\/h5>\nSo in the same manner\u00a0I inflict on the old charlatan (he has the costume and the appearance) the punishment to which he is the most sensitive and which is renewed every day: not only do I no longer go to his home, which could be all the same to him, but I do not greet him when I meet him, which is all the more noticeable because I am polite and considerate to everyone except him, with whom I quarreled irreconcilably. Would you believe he cannot get used to this lack of respect. Oh, it was enjoyable at the beginning of his punishment! As soon as he saw me, he was quick to approach me with a graceful smile that seemed to require the response as he is accustomed to receiving from bystanders. I returned his gaze with a look of indifference which I then turned away as I turned my body away to present to the said gentleman its posterior view. Ah! If he had had been so graceless as to ask for an explanation for my snubbing him, what a retort I had prepared for him – that most wretched of men, what would not one be justified in telling him!<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\nLetter to his father, 21 March 1805, M\u00e9janes Library, Aix<\/em><\/p>\nIn this outburst it is difficult to recognize the Saint Eugene who would dedicate his life to serving the most abandoned and socially excluded classes of people. His loving encounter with Christ the Savior would be the channel of God\u2019s grace for an unimaginable life-changing transformation. It becomes an invitation to us, his Mazenodian family, to do likewise as we strive to see others through the eyes of Christ the Savior.<\/p>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\n\u201cDignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 Aristotle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Eugene\u2019s letters to his father during the first few years of his return to France show a full immersion in the social life and values of the upper class of Aix. Their contents are full of social gossip about the … Continue reading
Letter to his father, 21 March 1805, M\u00e9janes Library, Aix<\/em><\/p>\n In this outburst it is difficult to recognize the Saint Eugene who would dedicate his life to serving the most abandoned and socially excluded classes of people. His loving encounter with Christ the Savior would be the channel of God\u2019s grace for an unimaginable life-changing transformation. It becomes an invitation to us, his Mazenodian family, to do likewise as we strive to see others through the eyes of Christ the Savior.<\/p>\n \u201cDignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 Aristotle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Eugene\u2019s letters to his father during the first few years of his return to France show a full immersion in the social life and values of the upper class of Aix. Their contents are full of social gossip about the … Continue reading <\/a><\/p>\n