Your letter of October 13, my dear and good friend, filled my heart with bitterness. I had a lively sense of all the snubs you endured during that wretched meal and I would like to tell you that the matter will end there, but these first trials that every newcomer whoever he may be is made to undergo, will be followed by others to which those who do not profess faith in Jesus Christ would not be submitted. It is when they have found out that you are a Christian that they will shower you with sarcasms, insults and scorn, it is then that the children of darkness will bend all their efforts to pervert the child of light and it is then too, my dear friend, that you will need to call upon all the strength you received with the seal of regeneration and through the imposition of hands.<\/strong><\/h5>\nBut as anything that I might say to reaffirm your faith and awaken your hope will have little effect as coming from my mouth, I have gathered together below some words of consolation that I have been careful to draw from the pure wellspring, in the book of life, that admirable code where all needs are foreseen, and remedies laid by. So it is by no means Eugene, it is Jesus Christ, it is Peter, Paul, John, etc., who send you this wholesome food which when received with that spirit of faith of which you are capable will certainly not be without effect.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\nLetter Emmanuel Gaultier de Claubry, EO XIV n 13<\/em><\/p>\nEugene\u2019s contemporary biographer, Rey, only copied this extract and left out the 3 pages of Holy Scripture transcribed by Eugene. He comments: \u201cWe do not know of a more complete and striking collection of texts adapted to fortify Christian courage\u201d<\/em> (Rey I p. 70). Don Bartolo had done his job well many years earlier!<\/p>\nAs we explore Mazenodian spirituality, I see an invitation for each of us to become aware of the spiritual riches already within ourselves as individuals and as a Mazenodian group as the starting point of expressing a spirituality.<\/p>\n
One of Eugene\u2019s guiding texts entrusted to us as missionaries in the Preface is the responsibility to begin the transformation process within ourselves:<\/p>\n
\n\u201cTake great care about what you do and what you teach,\u201d was Paul’s charge to Timothy, \u201cAlways do this, and thus you will save both yourself and those who listen to you\u201d (1 Tim 4: 16).<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n![\"200\"](\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/200.png\")
<\/a><\/p>\n\u201cOrdinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 Oscar Wilde<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
When some of the disciples pointed out to Jesus that the crowd that he was teaching was hungry, he replied: \u201cFeed them yourselves\u201d (Matthew 14:16 From the richness within you, you need to feed others. This is the starting point … Continue reading
Letter Emmanuel Gaultier de Claubry, EO XIV n 13<\/em><\/p>\n Eugene\u2019s contemporary biographer, Rey, only copied this extract and left out the 3 pages of Holy Scripture transcribed by Eugene. He comments: \u201cWe do not know of a more complete and striking collection of texts adapted to fortify Christian courage\u201d<\/em> (Rey I p. 70). Don Bartolo had done his job well many years earlier!<\/p>\n As we explore Mazenodian spirituality, I see an invitation for each of us to become aware of the spiritual riches already within ourselves as individuals and as a Mazenodian group as the starting point of expressing a spirituality.<\/p>\n One of Eugene\u2019s guiding texts entrusted to us as missionaries in the Preface is the responsibility to begin the transformation process within ourselves:<\/p>\n \u201cOrdinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 Oscar Wilde<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When some of the disciples pointed out to Jesus that the crowd that he was teaching was hungry, he replied: \u201cFeed them yourselves\u201d (Matthew 14:16 From the richness within you, you need to feed others. This is the starting point … Continue reading \n
\u201cTake great care about what you do and what you teach,\u201d was Paul’s charge to Timothy, \u201cAlways do this, and thus you will save both yourself and those who listen to you\u201d (1 Tim 4: 16).<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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