{"id":4844,"date":"2021-08-12T01:00:45","date_gmt":"2021-08-11T23:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=4844"},"modified":"2021-08-12T02:02:33","modified_gmt":"2021-08-12T00:02:33","slug":"the-saviour-who-chose-me-to-be-the-instrument-of-his-mercies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=4844","title":{"rendered":"THE SAVIOUR WHO CHOSE ME TO BE THE INSTRUMENT OF HIS MERCIES"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>The Oblate community in Vico, Corsica, had heard about Eugene&#8217;s visit to Africa and the frightening storm on his return. They had expressed concern.<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><em><strong>You were overly alarmed about the danger in my crossing over from Africa. The windstorms that forced us to lay over at Palma was an impulse of the Holy Spirit, which pushed us into that harbor to reconcile with God five unhappy Christians who otherwise would have died in their sins.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3>The storm was so fierce that the boat was driven to the islands of Majorca. The passengers disembarked in Palma, and Eugene saw that there was a ship nearby where the passengers were under quarantine. He arranged for two priests to visit the ship and administer the sacraments. Some of the people died a few days later.<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><em><strong>Therefore I can have only thoughts of thanksgiving to give to the Saviour, who chose me to be the instrument of his mercies toward those souls who were doubtless predestined to glory.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Letter to Father Semeria in Vico, Corsica, 18 February 1843, EO X n 790<\/em><\/h3>\n<h3>Sometimes, what appears to be a misfortune, turns out to be an instrument that God uses for good.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Oblate community in Vico, Corsica, had heard about Eugene&#8217;s visit to Africa and the frightening storm on his return. They had expressed concern. You were overly alarmed about the danger in my crossing over from Africa. The windstorms that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=4844\">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-4844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4844","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=4844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}