{"id":4376,"date":"2020-05-27T05:00:02","date_gmt":"2020-05-27T03:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=4376"},"modified":"2020-05-27T02:54:38","modified_gmt":"2020-05-27T00:54:38","slug":"you-are-sharers-in-the-divine-nature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=4376","title":{"rendered":"YOU ARE SHARERS IN THE DIVINE NATURE"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cAs you sent me into the world, so I sent them into the world. And I consecrate myself for them, so that they also may be consecrated in truth.\u201d<\/em><\/strong>(John 17:18-19)<\/p>\n

Jesus concluded his Last Supper discourse with a beautiful prayer showing the level of his unity with his Father. In today\u2019s Gospel (John 17:11b-19) <\/strong>he prays for all his disciples – for each of us – that we might experience this unity too because we are his presence and his instruments in our world. we are this because we have been consecrated in baptism, sealed in confirmation, nourished in the Word and Eucharist, and healed every time we have failed. We are the presence and the instruments of Jesus our Savior in today\u2019s world<\/p>\n

During this week the Mazenodian Family is praying for vocations. A good place to begin is by becoming more aware of how we were transformed at our baptism and its ongoing consequences in our daily lives.<\/p>\n

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St Eugene calls out to us:<\/p>\n

\u201cChristians, know then your dignity, with St. Leo I will call you sharers in the divine nature\u201d<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

and the words he addressed to the poor of Aix apply equally to each of us whether we are covered in rags or not:<\/p>\n

Lift yourselves towards heaven where your minds should be set, conversatio vestra in caelo (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><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cAs you sent me into the world, so I sent them into the world. And I consecrate myself for them, so that they also may be consecrated in truth.\u201d(John 17:18-19) Jesus concluded his Last Supper discourse with a beautiful prayer … Continue reading →<\/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-4376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4376","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=4376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}