Why enter into a time of retreat? Eugene\u2019s zeal and desire to be \u201call for God\u201d could not stop at a half-measure of becoming better. It was all or nothing for him: total conversion to God. Life was a process of continual conversion for him \u2013 and a time of retreat aimed at renewing his self-gift of oblation totally.<\/p>\n
\n5. My starting point will be that it is a question this time of a retreat of conversion and not of perfection, i.e., my business is not to become better but to become good.<\/strong><\/em><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Retreat resolutions, October 1831, EO XV n 162<\/em><\/p>\n
He was renewing the resolution he had made twenty years before, at the time of his ordination to the priesthood:<\/p>\n
To please you, act for your glory, will be my daily task, the task of every moment of my life. I wish to live only for you, I wish to love you alone and all else in you and through you.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Notes made during the retreat in preparation for priestly ordination, December 1-21, E.O. XIV n.95<\/em><\/p>\n
This is what we understand by \u201coblation\u201d as a Mazenodian Family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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