Eugene\u2019s Good Friday experience did not leave him standing at the foot of the Cross. The focus of his life had changed, and it became a continuous Easter \u2013 responding to the light of the Risen Christ\u2019s, \u201cI am with you always.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nNever was my soul more satisfied, never did it feel such happiness; for in the midst of this flood of tears, despite my grief, or rather because of my grief, my soul took wings towards its final end, towards God its only good whose loss it felt so keenly. Why say more? Could I ever express what I experienced then? Just the memory of it fills my heart with a sweet consolation.<\/strong>
\nThus I had looked for happiness outside of God, and outside of him I found only affliction and vexation. Blessed, a thousand times blessed, that he, this good Father who, notwithstanding my unworthiness, lavished on me all the richness of his mercy.<\/strong>
\nLet me at least make up for lost time by redoubling my love for him. May all my actions, thoughts, etc., be directed towards that end. What more glorious occupation than to act in everything and for everything only for God, to love him above all else, to love him all the more as one who has loved him too late.<\/strong>
\nAh! The happiness of heaven begins here below. This is the true way to glorify him as he wants.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\nRetreat Journal, December 1814, EO XV n.130<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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