{"id":4357,"date":"2020-05-15T05:00:28","date_gmt":"2020-05-15T03:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=4357"},"modified":"2020-05-15T03:56:32","modified_gmt":"2020-05-15T01:56:32","slug":"may-the-love-of-jesus-christ-be-ever-in-our-hearts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=4357","title":{"rendered":"MAY THE LOVE OF JESUS CHRIST BE EVER IN OUR HEARTS!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>I call you friends,\u00a0because I have made known to you\u00a0everything I have learnt from my Father.<\/strong><\/em> (John 15: 15)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow does God love me, and how do I reflect this love to others?\u201d is the question that Jesus explains in today\u2019s Gospel (<strong>John<\/strong> <strong>15:12-17).<\/strong> It is a love expressed, not in abstract concepts, but in everyday relationships. Through our baptism, Jesus makes us ongoing participants in his relationship with his Father &#8211; not as unworthy fearful servants but as friends called to an intimacy expressed in love.<\/p>\n<p>St Eugene\u2019s daily sentiment:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>\u201cMay the love of Jesus Christ be ever in our hearts!\u201d<\/strong> (1814)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Picture1-5.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-4358\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Picture1-5-198x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"330\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Picture1-5-198x300.png 198w, https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Picture1-5.png 643w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 330px) 100vw, 330px\" \/><\/a>This led him to his vocation<\/p>\n<p>\u2018<strong>that called me to devote myself to the service and to the happiness of my <em>neighbor<\/em> whom I loved with the love of Jesus Christ for all people.\u201d<\/strong> (1839)<\/p>\n<p>We are living these days in hope and in fearful confusion: we strive to begin to restore normality to our activities and interactions, and yet we still face the unknown menace of the virus.<\/p>\n<p>In this hope and uncertainty let us remember that what really counts is the conviction that we are truly \u201ccalled friends\u201d and it is from this vision that we are invited to live each of these days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I call you friends,\u00a0because I have made known to you\u00a0everything I have learnt from my Father. (John 15: 15) \u201cHow does God love me, and how do I reflect this love to others?\u201d is the question that Jesus explains in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=4357\">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-4357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4357","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=4357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}