Question the milling crowd that jostles in the public squares, ask anyone what he is doing, where he is going, what is he engaged in doing, etc.<\/strong><\/p>\n So come, whoever you are, come tirelessly to some instructions that must correct you in many fatal errors, enlighten you on what should be your only true interests. Not a single one, no, not one will be able to reply that his mind is filled with the eternal truths, that these are the subject of his meditations and searches. \u201cIt has been made a desolation\u201d etc. (Jer. 12:11). O blindness! O folly! However, the days pass, the years roll by, death has its day!<\/strong><\/p>\n Come especially you poor of Jesus Christ and may God grant that I may make my voice heard in the four quarters of the world to reawaken so many foolish people from the fatal carelessness that brings them to their doom.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Notes for the first instruction in the Church of the Madeleine EO XV n. 114<\/em><\/p>\n These were Eugene’s preaching notes and thus when we see the “etc.” in the text, it means that he would spontaneously expand on that point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When Eugene returned to Aix en Provence as a young priest he preached a series of Lenten sermons aimed at those who were the most abandoned as a result of the French Revolution. For Eugene the \u201cpoor\u201d were those who … Continue reading \n
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<\/a>Then illusion vanishes, but there is no longer time to make good the loss of a life entirely devoted in the tiring search for passing vanities that must be left behind. It is too late to collect an incorruptible treasure of glory and happiness for eternity.<\/strong><\/p>\n