{"id":3647,"date":"2018-03-09T05:00:01","date_gmt":"2018-03-09T03:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=3647"},"modified":"2018-03-09T04:24:36","modified_gmt":"2018-03-09T02:24:36","slug":"an-invitation-to-become-an-artist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=3647","title":{"rendered":"AN INVITATION TO BECOME AN ARTIST"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<h5><strong>Always the obligation to retrace Jesus Christ in our persons: We will meditate especially \u2026on the virtues of our Lord Jesus Christ, for these should be obvious in the life of our members.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Retreat notes, October 1831, EO XV n. 163<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Using the image of a painter, he wrote when he was a seminarian:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h5><strong>To make myself like Jesus Crucified<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>It is like the painter who copies a model.<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>studies him carefully,<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>concentrates on him,<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>tries to engrave his image in his spirit,<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>then he traces some lines on the paper, which he compares with the original ,<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>then he makes corrections until he is satisfied that it conforms with the original, then he continues\u2026<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Unpublished exercise book, in the Archives of the OMI General House, Rome<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Eugene is not aiming at transforming himself into an exact photographic reproduction of Jesus the Savior. That is unrealistic and impossible. Like an artist, Eugene\u2019s spirituality consists in focusing intensely on the model, and then allowing that model to express himself through the vision of the artist\u2019s experience and understanding of the human person and of the world in which he lives.<\/p>\n<p>Eugene invites each of us, members of his charism family, to follow his example and become artists!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Always the obligation to retrace Jesus Christ in our persons: We will meditate especially \u2026on the virtues of our Lord Jesus Christ, for these should be obvious in the life of our members. Retreat notes, October 1831, EO XV n. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=3647\">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-3647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3647","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=3647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}