{"id":4195,"date":"2020-03-02T05:00:20","date_gmt":"2020-03-02T04:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=4195"},"modified":"2020-02-02T09:43:45","modified_gmt":"2020-02-02T08:43:45","slug":"the-anniversary-of-my-baptism-with-a-profound-sense-of-gratitude-repentance-and-confidence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=4195","title":{"rendered":"THE ANNIVERSARY OF MY BAPTISM\u2026 \u00a0WITH A PROFOUND SENSE OF GRATITUDE, REPENTANCE AND CONFIDENCE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Throughout his life, Eugene always considered the day of his baptism the most important day of his life. (cf <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=160\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=160<\/a> )<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h5>T<strong>he anniversary of my baptism. Before leaving St-Martin to go to Marseilles, I said, at the Mass, with a profound sense of gratitude, repentance and confidence, joined to what I dare to believe, sincere good will, these beautiful prayers from the Vienna missal:<\/strong><\/h5>\n<h5><strong><em>Blessed may you be Lord, you who in your great mercy have given us new birth to a living hope of an incorruptible inheritance, grant us always to desire, as new-born infants, pure rational milk so that through it we may advance to salvation. (Cf. IP 1,34 and 2,2), God, thanks to your inestimable love, we are called to be your children and such we are (Cf.: 1 In. 3, 1), grant that, through the power of this sacrifice, we, who have received the Spirit of adoption as children in baptism, may obtain the promised blessing as our inheritance.<\/em><\/strong><\/h5>\n<h5><strong><em>Lord, this faith, that you have given us at our baptism, we now renew at your altar, renouncing Satan and choosing to fulfill the law of Christ; grant that we, who have received a pledge of the eternal life promised to us, may gain continual growth in the sinless life to which we have dedicated ourselves.<\/em><\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Eugene de Mazenod\u2019s Diary, 2 August 1837, EO XVIII<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A good invitation for us to reflect on the meaning of our own baptism for us. Can we make Eugene\u2019s prayer our own?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Throughout his life, Eugene always considered the day of his baptism the most important day of his life. (cf https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=160 ) The anniversary of my baptism. Before leaving St-Martin to go to Marseilles, I said, at the Mass, with a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=4195\">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-4195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4195","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=4195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}