{"id":4385,"date":"2020-05-29T05:00:14","date_gmt":"2020-05-29T03:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=4385"},"modified":"2020-05-29T03:09:06","modified_gmt":"2020-05-29T01:09:06","slug":"eating-breakfast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=4385","title":{"rendered":"EATING BREAKFAST"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>\u201cDo you love me?\u201d<\/strong><\/em> (John 21:16<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter Jesus had revealed himself to his disciples and eaten breakfast with them\u201d is the beginning of today\u2019s Gospel <strong>(John 21:15-19). <\/strong>Throughout Lent and the Easter season Jesus has been \u201ceating breakfast\u201d with us and nourishing us through the long days of isolation and learning to cope with a new reality. Each day he has asked us \u201cDo you love me?\u201d and has reminded us to care for his sheep.<\/p>\n<p>Today in the universal Church we celebrate the feast of Pope Saint Paul VI who beatified Eugene de Mazenod and summed him up as:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>\u201cEugene de Mazenod was a man passionately in love with Jesus Christ and unconditionally committed to the Church.\u201d<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Eugene was able to be this only because of his intimate love for Jesus his Savior, with whom he \u201cate breakfast\u201d every day as he cared for his sheep.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Gerard-Joseph-1-1-210x300-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4386\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Gerard-Joseph-1-1-210x300-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>In the Mazenodian world we celebrate today the feast of Blessed Joseph Gerard OMI.<\/p>\n<p>Surrounded by hardship and failure, he too continued to care for the sheep in Southern Africa because he \u201cate breakfast\u201d every day with Jesus whom he loved and whose love he shared.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDo you love me?\u201d is the question Jesus asks me today as he \u201ceats breakfast\u201d with me &#8211; and then he says \u201clook after my sheep who are all around you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>(For further details on Blessed Joseph Gerard see\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=3699)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=3699)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cDo you love me?\u201d (John 21:16 \u201cAfter Jesus had revealed himself to his disciples and eaten breakfast with them\u201d is the beginning of today\u2019s Gospel (John 21:15-19). Throughout Lent and the Easter season Jesus has been \u201ceating breakfast\u201d with us &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=4385\">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-4385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4385","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=4385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}