{"id":4130,"date":"2019-11-25T05:00:15","date_gmt":"2019-11-25T04:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=4130"},"modified":"2019-11-19T23:53:17","modified_gmt":"2019-11-19T22:53:17","slug":"it-seemed-to-me-that-i-could-say-like-our-divine-master-that-a-power-had-gone-out-from-me-and-i-knew-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=4130","title":{"rendered":"IT SEEMED TO ME THAT I COULD SAY LIKE OUR DIVINE MASTER THAT A POWER HAD GONE OUT FROM ME AND I KNEW IT"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This Holy Saturday ordination brings me back the memory of the first I had the happiness of doing on the same day in 1833.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n

In the previous journal entry, Eugene had described the priestly ordination of Charles Bellon, and now he reminisced about the first priestly ordination he had ever performed as a newly-ordained bishop. It is a powerful revelation as to what went on in Eugene as he became God\u2019s instrument of communicating the gift of the priesthood in an ordination. He exclaims: \u201cThis miracle is worked in every ordination I perform.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Can I recall without emotion that the first fruit of my fecundity was the precious Father Casimir Aubert, the first on whom I imposed hands. No one could guess what transpired in my soul when in profound recollection I invoked the sovereign priest Jesus Christ with all the power with which I was invested to bring about this great miracle, and lifted up my hands over the dear head of my well-beloved son and passed on to him a share of that abundance of grace and power of which I had myself received the plenitude some months before. <\/strong>
\nIt seemed to me that together with the Holy Spirit who came down on him and with the power of the Most High who was about to overshadow him, – for one may apply to this divine operation that transforms in a way the soul of the new priest as it makes it fruitful, the words of the angel to the Mother of God, – it seemed to me, I say, that my own spirit communicated itself to him, that my heart expanded in the outpouring of a charity, a supernatural love that produced in its turn something more than human.<\/strong><\/h5>\n
\nIt seemed to me that I could say like our divine Master that a power had gone out from me and I knew it. At all events I was in a transport with that very real and wholly-of-God power that I was passing on with force and efficacy and that I could say as it were went out from me, since it was in me radically through the character I possessed, all unworthy though I may be. <\/strong><\/h5>\n
This miracle is worked in every ordination I perform and I experience it to a greater or lesser extent according to the quality of those on whom I impose hands, for I confess that paternal love is at work in the very midst of all these marvels, especially when I see my children disposed as I desire. Thanks be to God, it is what I believe I have perceived in the majority of those I have ordained up to now.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Eugene de Mazenod\u2019s Diary, 25 March 1837, EO XVIII<\/em><\/p>\n

Beautiful words that remind us that the priesthood is not a career but a God-given responsibility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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