{"id":4347,"date":"2020-05-11T05:00:06","date_gmt":"2020-05-11T03:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=4347"},"modified":"2020-05-11T04:16:42","modified_gmt":"2020-05-11T02:16:42","slug":"participating-in-the-divine-communion-of-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=4347","title":{"rendered":"PARTICIPATING IN THE DIVINE COMMUNION OF LOVE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201c<em>If anyone loves me he will keep my word, and my Father will love him,\u00a0and we shall come to him and make our home with him.<\/em>\u201d (John 14: 23)<\/p>\n<p>In these days the daily Gospel in the liturgy is from the Last Supper discourse of Jesus. We see the community of disciples (the Early Church) being prepared for life without the physical earthly presence of Jesus. The community is being trained to recognize the presence of God in many different ways.<\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s Gospel (<strong>John 14:21-26<\/strong>) plunges us into the dynamics of Trinitarian love by putting us into relationship with the Holy Spirit. If we love God, then God will make a home of our lives.<\/p>\n<p>St. Eugene wanted his life to be God\u2019s home:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>The only way, I believe, is to act always in a perfect dependence on God\u2019s will, in perfect liberty of spirit, in union with God by an interior movement of connection to what it pleases him at that moment, with the conviction that that is what he wants me to do, and absolutely nothing else.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Picture1-4.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4348 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Picture1-4-300x200.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Picture1-4-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Picture1-4-768x511.png 768w, https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Picture1-4.png 902w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The pandemic we are living through has shaken our foundations and invites us to re-examine our life choices:<br \/>\nto begin by loving,<br \/>\nto listen to the Loved One\u2019s Word,<br \/>\nto allow ourselves to be loved, and<br \/>\nto transform our life into the home of Love.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIf anyone loves me he will keep my word, and my Father will love him,\u00a0and we shall come to him and make our home with him.\u201d (John 14: 23) In these days the daily Gospel in the liturgy is from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=4347\">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-4347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4347","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=4347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}