{"id":3722,"date":"2018-06-20T05:00:58","date_gmt":"2018-06-20T03:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=3722"},"modified":"2018-06-14T23:14:32","modified_gmt":"2018-06-14T21:14:32","slug":"the-best-thing-is-to-abandon-myself-to-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=3722","title":{"rendered":"THE BEST THING IS TO ABANDON MYSELF TO GOD"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<h5 class=\"4Textofwritings\"><strong>That is enough reflecting on the past. The best thing is to abandon myself to God to apply myself specially to consider what is going to be done in me by virtue of the Most High, and the obligations I am going to contract on receiving the plenitude of the priesthood of J.C.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"4Textofwritings\">The future bishop then spent the rest of the retreat meditating on the prayers of the rite of consecration and what tey highlight about the meaning of being a bishop. A successor of the Apostles:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h5 class=\"4Textofwritings\"><strong>Dust and ashes as I am, I am really going to be lifted up among the Princes of God\u2019s People, as I am going to be aggregated to the apostolic College, re-clothed with the character they were clothed with, succeed to and participate in a share of their power\u2026 to enter into participation in the solicitude for all the Churches, to pass on in my turn the Holy Spirit to work towards the perpetuation of the priesthood in the Church of Jesus Christ, to judge, interpret, conserve, ordain, offer, baptize, and confirm.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"4Textofwritings\">Prostrate on the ground during the singing of the Litany of the Saints:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h5 class=\"4Textofwritings\"><strong>As for me is it excessive to abase myself with the thought of my own nothingness, prostrate myself face downwards to the ground, send up groans towards the Lord, implore his mercy, his almighty grace, the help of his right-hand, to invoke, hands joined, tears in the eyes, the Blessed Virgin my Mother, the holy Angels, my holy Patrons and all the saints of paradise and all the just on earth and even the holy souls in purgatory, for I am sure that even though they cannot merit, they can obtain by intercession\u2026<\/strong><\/h5>\n<h5 class=\"4Textofwritings\"><strong>All-Holy God, grant me the grace to penetrate this great mystery \u2026<\/strong><i><\/i><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"4Textofwritings\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Retreat before being consecrated bishop, 7-14 October 1832, EO XV n 166<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That is enough reflecting on the past. The best thing is to abandon myself to God to apply myself specially to consider what is going to be done in me by virtue of the Most High, and the obligations I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=3722\">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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3722","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=3722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3722\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}