{"id":3393,"date":"2017-04-14T05:00:04","date_gmt":"2017-04-14T03:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=3393"},"modified":"2017-04-12T18:55:04","modified_gmt":"2017-04-12T16:55:04","slug":"living-holy-week-with-saint-eugene-good-friday-can-i-forget-the-sight-of-the-cross","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=3393","title":{"rendered":"LIVING HOLY WEEK WITH SAINT EUGENE: GOOD FRIDAY &#8211;\u00a0CAN I FORGET THE SIGHT OF THE CROSS?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<h5><strong>\u00a0Can I forget the bitter tears that the sight of the cross brought streaming from my eyes one Good Friday?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Retreat Journal, December 1814, EO\u00a0XV n.130<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<strong>Can I forget \u2026 the sight of the cross?<\/strong>\u201d asks Eugene?<\/p>\n<p>Every action of his life, every time that he preached the Gospel, every time that he held out his hands to the poor and most abandoned, it was a proclamation of: \u201cNever can I forget the sight of the cross!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It is the only distinctive sign that he gave to the Oblates \u2013 under which every aspect of our lives is to unfold: \u201cNever forget the sight of the cross!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<strong>Through the eyes of the Crucified Savior<\/strong>\u201d is the only point of view through which the Mazenodian family is called to see the world: \u201cNever forget the sight of the cross!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At the very end of his life, Father Tempier wrote to the Oblates: \u201cIt is not possible to tell you the example he gave, the sentiments he manifested during these three days [of preparing himself for the Sacrament of the sick]. We consider it a special grace to have seen and heard what we did. He cried out:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h5><strong>I am on the cross. I gladly stay on the cross and offer my sufferings to God for my dear Oblates<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Circular letter no. 2 of January 29, 1861 in Oblate Writings II, vol. 2, no. 116.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Can I forget the bitter tears that the sight of the cross brought streaming from my eyes one Good Friday? Retreat Journal, December 1814, EO\u00a0XV n.130 \u201cCan I forget \u2026 the sight of the cross?\u201d asks Eugene? Every action of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=3393\">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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3393","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=3393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3393\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}