{"id":4264,"date":"2020-03-31T05:00:42","date_gmt":"2020-03-31T03:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=4264"},"modified":"2020-03-31T00:08:32","modified_gmt":"2020-03-30T22:08:32","slug":"today-focus-on-seeing-what-is-essential","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=4264","title":{"rendered":"TODAY: FOCUS ON SEEING WHAT IS ESSENTIAL"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<h5><strong>Through the eyes of our crucified Saviour we see the world which he redeemed with his blood, desiring that those in whom he continues to suffer will know also the power of his resurrection (cf. Phil 3: 10).<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>CC&amp;RR, Constitution 4<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Fr. Jett\u00e9 reflects: <em>\u201cwe are invited to contemplate the cross, Christ\u2019s suffering not only within ourselves but also in others. Our desire is \u2018that those in whom he continues to suffer will know also the power of his resurrection\u2019.\u201d<\/em> (F. Jett\u00e9,\u00a0<em>The Apostolic Man<\/em>, p. 59)<\/p>\n<p>Eugene\u2019s first recorded homily, in the Madeleine Church, put this view into practice:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Cross-Ciardi-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4266\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Cross-Ciardi-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"233\" height=\"308\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Cross-Ciardi-2.png 233w, https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Cross-Ciardi-2-227x300.png 227w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 233px) 100vw, 233px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Lift yourselves towards heaven where your minds should be set, our citizenship is in heaven (Phil. 3:20), let your eyes see for once beneath the rags that cover you, there is within you an immortal soul made in the image of God whom it is destined to possess one day, a soul ransomed at the price of the blood of Jesus Christ, more precious in the eyes of God than all earth\u2019s riches, than all the kingdoms of the earth, a soul of which he is more jealous than of the government of the entire universe.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Christians, know then your dignity, with St. Leo I will call you sharers in the divine nature.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Notes for the first instruction in the Church of the Madeleine, 1813,\u00a0 EO XV n. 114<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Through the eyes of our crucified Saviour we see the world which he redeemed with his blood, desiring that those in whom he continues to suffer will know also the power of his resurrection (cf. Phil 3: 10). CC&amp;RR, Constitution &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=4264\">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-4264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4264","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=4264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}