{"id":4937,"date":"2021-11-05T02:32:16","date_gmt":"2021-11-05T01:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=4937"},"modified":"2021-11-05T02:32:16","modified_gmt":"2021-11-05T01:32:16","slug":"is-it-not-a-foretaste-of-paradise-to-find-oneself-in-the-presence-of-jesus-christ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=4937","title":{"rendered":"IS IT NOT A FORETASTE OF PARADISE TO FIND ONESELF IN THE PRESENCE OF JESUS CHRIST"},"content":{"rendered":"

In this beautiful reflection in his private journal, Eugene describes how he was caught up in the wonder of the presence of Jesus during his time of prayer before the Eucharist.\u00a0 He writes about his desire to be united with Jesus at all times and to prepare himself for the permanent encounter at the moment of his death. His death was to occur 17 years later, but the fact that the Church was to canonize him was proof that he did indeed live these words for the rest of his life.<\/h3>\n

During my adoration before the Blessed Sacrament exposed, I was preoccupied with the thought that it was impossible to be better. Is it not a foretaste of paradise to find oneself in the presence of Jesus Christ, prostrate at his feet to adore him, to love him and to expect from his goodness the graces which are needed.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

Going further into this thought, I came to a conclusion from it that had never presented itself to my spirit. It\u2019s that, if in my last illness, I maintain my reasoning, I ought to obtain for myself the happiness of suffering the anguishes of death and of rendering my last breath in the presence of our divine Savior. It seems to me that this would be an infallible means of being absorbed only with him and that my heart would not cease for a single instant in being united to him who would embrace it by his presence and fortify it in the formidable moment of this passage from time to eternity.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

It also seems to me that it would be impossible that this same Jesus Christ continuously invoked, gripped lovingly with a complete trust and in whose bosom, in a way, I would render my last breath, could send me away from his face at the very instant that I would have just left him on earth. I feel these things better than I express them.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

Eugene de Mazenod\u2019s Diary, 6 January 1844, EO XXI<\/em><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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