{"id":3349,"date":"2017-03-02T05:00:39","date_gmt":"2017-03-02T03:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=3349"},"modified":"2017-03-02T02:52:08","modified_gmt":"2017-03-02T00:52:08","slug":"it-seems-that-the-good-god-wills-that-i-be-content-with-suffering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=3349","title":{"rendered":"IT SEEMS THAT THE GOOD GOD WILLS THAT I BE CONTENT WITH SUFFERING"},"content":{"rendered":"<table width=\"720\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"243\">Poor Eugene, following the ministry of the Oblates and physically incapable of participating himself! A man of big pastoral dreams and seemingly endless supplies of energy \u2013 and here he was now at the end of a year that had hammered him emotionally and physically.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h5><strong>I would wish with all my heart to share in your efforts, so I can count on a portion of your merits, but it seems that the good God wills that I be content with suffering from my inaction and from the causes which subject me to it.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Instead of feeling better, he complained that he was feeling worse now than he had five months before, while recuperating in Grans.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h5><strong>I have more bodily ills at present than I had when we were at Grans. I mention this to you in response to the interest that you take in my wretched carcass.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Letter to Jacques Jeancard, 14 December 1829, EO VII n 341<\/em><\/p>\n<p>These years of suffering were not in vain because Eugene was to emerge from them as a more rounded personality to whom the words of Elisabeth Kubler-Ross could be applied:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of those depths.\u201d<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poor Eugene, following the ministry of the Oblates and physically incapable of participating himself! A man of big pastoral dreams and seemingly endless supplies of energy \u2013 and here he was now at the end of a year that had &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=3349\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}