{"id":36,"date":"2010-05-10T17:54:23","date_gmt":"2010-05-10T15:54:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=36"},"modified":"2011-09-05T15:45:53","modified_gmt":"2011-09-05T13:45:53","slug":"i-love-with-passion-everybody-i-believe-loves-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=36","title":{"rendered":"I LOVE WITH PASSION EVERYBODY I BELIEVE LOVES ME"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eugene was not afraid of expressing his feelings for others, and his strong need for friendship.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Generally speaking I love with passion everybody I believe loves me, but theirs must be a passionate love too. So gratitude is the final constituent that goes to make up my heart\u2019s passion.<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/h5>\n
This feeling is so intense in me that it has never wavered. I have always longed for a friend, but I have never found one, at least one such as I am seeking; it is true that I am hard to please for as it is my nature to give generously I expect the same in return.<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/h5>\n
Even so I do not spurn some friendships of an ordinary, less exalted kind, although they are not really to my taste. In such cases I give in proportion to what I think I might experience in return. St. Augustine is one of the men (I am not thinking of him here in his capacity as a saint and doctor of the Church) whom I love best as he had a heart of the same calibre as my own, he understood what love means; when I read his Confessions, where he speaks of his friendship with Lipius, it was as if he were writing in my name. I like St. Basil and St. Gregory very much. All those stories from history that tell of various similar examples of heroic friendships make my heart sing for joy; at that moment I experience a longing in my heart to meet such a treasure. <\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/h5>\n
In short, I need to love and as I know inside me what a truly perfect love would be like, I will not ever be satisfied with those ordinary friendships which are good enough for most people. I aim at a friendship which, to sum it all up in a word, would make but one being where there were two.<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Self-evaluation written for his spiritual director in 1808, O.W. XIV n. 30<\/em><\/p>\n

In the pages of Eugene\u2019s life we find \u201cthis longing for a friend\u201d expressed towards several people: Tempier, Suzanne, Aubert etc., and also his frustration with Tempier for being so reserved.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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