Two weeks earlier Eugene had written about his non-stop activity as Vicar General of Marseilles. He did not enjoy the work, and it was \u201cone of the most painful of penances\u201d \u2013 yet it had to be done, and he saw it as being done for God. It was all a passing shadow in the sustaining light of God.<\/p>\n
\nI give it no further thought as, thanks be to God, without being a St. Francis de Sales or a St. Teresa, there is little that I desire, and the little I desire I desire but little. It is not only in recent days that the world\u2019s show has seemed but a passing shadow to me; I live in habitual awareness that I have only a limited number of days to live, and obliged as I am to work from dawn to dusk, I do it only as a duty, like a man who has been given one of the most painful of penances by the Master to whom all obedience is due.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Letter to Hippolyte Court\u00e8s, 18 February 1832, EO VIII n 415<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Two weeks earlier Eugene had written about his non-stop activity as Vicar General of Marseilles. He did not enjoy the work, and it was \u201cone of the most painful of penances\u201d \u2013 yet it had to be done, and he … Continue reading