{"id":3642,"date":"2018-04-06T05:00:19","date_gmt":"2018-04-06T03:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=3642"},"modified":"2018-04-06T12:11:52","modified_gmt":"2018-04-06T10:11:52","slug":"eugene-and-the-resurrection-desiring-that-those-in-whom-he-continues-to-suffer-will-know-also-the-power-of-his-resurrection-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=3642","title":{"rendered":"EUGENE AND THE RESURRECTION: DESIRING THAT THOSE IN WHOM HE CONTINUES TO SUFFER WILL KNOW ALSO THE POWER OF HIS RESURRECTION"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<h5>Through the eyes of our crucified Saviour we see the world which he redeemed with his blood, desiring that those in whom he continues to suffer will know also the power of his resurrection (cf. Phil 3: 10).<\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">CC&amp;RR, Constitution 4<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>From his earliest preaching Eugene constantly invited the poor to understand the transforming invitation of the resurrection in their lives.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h5><strong>Come now and learn from us what you are in the eyes of faith.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Poor of Jesus Christ, afflicted, wretched, suffering, sick, covered with sores, etc., all you whom misery oppresses, my brothers, dear brothers, respected brothers, listen to me.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>You are God\u2019s children, the brothers of Jesus Christ, heirs to his eternal kingdom, chosen portion of his inheritance; you are, in the words of St. Peter, a holy nation, you are kings, you are priests, you are in some way gods,\u00a0You are gods, children of the Most High.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>So lift up your spirits, that your defeated souls may breathe, grovel no longer on the ground:\u00a0You are gods, children of the Most High. (Ps. 81:6).<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Lift yourselves towards heaven where your minds should be set, our citizenship is in heaven\u00a0(Phil. 3:20), let your eyes see for once beneath the rags that cover you, there is within you an immortal soul made in the image of God whom it is destined to possess one day, a soul ransomed at the price of the blood of Jesus Christ, more precious in the eyes of God than all earth\u2019s riches, than all the kingdoms of the earth, a soul of which he is more jealous than of the government of the entire universe.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Christians, know then your dignity, with St. Leo I will call you sharers in the divine nature,<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Notes for the first instruction in the Church of the Madeleine, EO XV n. 114<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Through the eyes of our crucified Saviour we see the world which he redeemed with his blood, desiring that those in whom he continues to suffer will know also the power of his resurrection (cf. Phil 3: 10). CC&amp;RR, Constitution &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=3642\">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,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3642","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=3642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3642\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}