{"id":3456,"date":"2017-07-31T05:00:22","date_gmt":"2017-07-31T03:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=3456"},"modified":"2017-07-21T18:52:24","modified_gmt":"2017-07-21T16:52:24","slug":"the-love-which-unites-us-all-to-our-common-center-who-is-jesus-christ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=3456","title":{"rendered":"THE LOVE WHICH UNITES US ALL TO OUR COMMON CENTER WHO IS JESUS CHRIST"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<h5><strong>Also, my heart was gladdened at the sight of the first cross I perceived as I entered the canton of Fribourg. We recited with joy the Vexilla as if we had just found our compass once more\u2026<\/strong><\/h5>\n<h5><strong>It is on these occasions that one feels what it is to be Catholic and the full rapture of this veritable love which unites us all to our common center who is Jesus Christ, to whom be honor and glory in all places, at all times and for all eternity!<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Letter to Hippolyte Guibert, 29 July 1830, EO VII n 350<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Having been knocked off-balance for couple of days, Eugene refocused on his enduring and loving relationship with the universal Church. Thirty years later we find him repeating the same conviction to the people of Marseilles.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>How is it possible to separate our love for Jesus Christ from that which we owe to his Church? These two kinds of love merge: to love the Church is to love Jesus Christ and vice versa. We love Jesus Christ in his Church because she is his immaculate spouse who came out of his opened side on the cross\u2026<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Lenten Pastoral Letter, February 16, 1860<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Also, my heart was gladdened at the sight of the first cross I perceived as I entered the canton of Fribourg. We recited with joy the Vexilla as if we had just found our compass once more\u2026 It is on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=3456\">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-3456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3456","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=3456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}