{"id":4431,"date":"2020-06-22T05:00:21","date_gmt":"2020-06-22T03:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=4431"},"modified":"2020-06-21T20:06:15","modified_gmt":"2020-06-21T18:06:15","slug":"they-refreshed-my-spirit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=4431","title":{"rendered":"THEY REFRESHED MY SPIRIT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 1813 Eugene had started a congregation of youth in Aix that had had much success. Twenty five years later he was delighted to receive a letter from two former members: Fr Leblanc (who was now a diocesan priest in Paris) who had recently met Adrien Chappuis (who was now an advocate in Paris) and had \u201cchatted <em>a lot about our father and common benefactor. Believe us that the memories of our past relations are so precious after so many years that they are still alive in our hearts.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>The three-page letter is full of fine feelings. \u201c<em>You are today,\u201d<\/em> this dear child tells me, \u201c<em>what you have been at all times in your ministry, as I observed you when I had the happiness of always being around you, who knew so well how to reconcile the kindness of charity with attention to duty.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>This recognition is very dear to me. It comes from a good priest whom I esteem to the extent that I have always loved him and that goes back to the first years of my ministry when this good Leblanc was among the most fervent disciples of my beautiful congregation of Christian youth, of which he was one of the first members,<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Eugene de Mazenod\u2019s Diary, 18 February 1838, EO XIX<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Eugene echoes sentiments of Paul\u2019s last lines in his First letter to the Corinthians 16:15-18), when he refers to people who have served in the community :<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Youth.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4432\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Youth-300x226.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"226\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Youth-300x226.png 300w, https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Youth.png 725w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\u201cthey have devoted themselves to the service of the holy ones\u2014be subordinate to such people and to everyone who works and toils with them.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0I rejoice in the arrival of \u2026 because they made up for your absence, for they refreshed my spirit as well as yours. So give recognition to such people.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1813 Eugene had started a congregation of youth in Aix that had had much success. Twenty five years later he was delighted to receive a letter from two former members: Fr Leblanc (who was now a diocesan priest in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=4431\">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,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4431","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=4431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}