{"id":4839,"date":"2021-08-06T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-06T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=4839"},"modified":"2021-08-04T20:57:20","modified_gmt":"2021-08-04T18:57:20","slug":"you-are-all-members-of-one-body-let-each-make-good-his-own-talent-then-it-will-be-the-body-that-lacks-nothing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=4839","title":{"rendered":"YOU ARE ALL MEMBERS OF ONE BODY. LET EACH MAKE GOOD HIS OWN TALENT, THEN IT WILL BE THE BODY THAT LACKS NOTHING."},"content":{"rendered":"

The community in Canada had been on a bumpy ride with several strong personalities interacting – not always smoothly. By now they had come to a more united lifestyle and Eugene recognized this.<\/h3>\n

At this moment your house at Longueuil is certainly one of our most regular houses and well you know that it is indeed by the Providence of God that you recognize that it would be too ungrateful on your part, after receiving so many graces, if you were not to become ardent for the glory of God and your improvement. I am in perfect agreement with you and it is not as of today that I think so. How could you dream of accomplishing a mission like yours if you did not exert every effort to attain the perfection of your vocation? I thought I had made this plain enough to you when I sent you: “carry each other’s burdens” [<\/strong><\/em>ed Galatians 6:2]. Need I say to you: “and so you will fulfil the law of Christ”? <\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

How is that the difference of temperaments is not effaced by the resolution to have but one will for good, to consider only God whether in the Rules you should observe, whether in the men with whom you are but one body and soul. The least clash in this supernatural order brings on grave inconvenience, disorders and consequently many sins.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

But you want us to be no longer concerned with the past. I agree to this provided that in future you are such as you say you have become by the grace of God. But to this end, always be very deferential and respectful to each other… Be convinced that no one here below possesses every good quality, be satisfied with those you have received as your share, try to acquire more but do not demand that your brother possess numerically more than yourself. It is possible that he lacks some quality or some virtue that you think you have, but be quite sure that he has some on his side that are lacking in you. Put everything then in common for the advantage of all. You are all members of one body. Let each make good his own talent, then it will be the body that lacks nothing.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

Letter to the first group of Canadian Missionaries, 17 January 1843, EO I n 15a<\/em><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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