{"id":5031,"date":"2022-02-15T04:46:49","date_gmt":"2022-02-15T03:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5031"},"modified":"2022-02-15T04:46:49","modified_gmt":"2022-02-15T03:46:49","slug":"i-finish-this-letter-broken-hearted-with-sorrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5031","title":{"rendered":"I FINISH THIS LETTER BROKEN-HEARTED WITH SORROW"},"content":{"rendered":"

Despite all his efforts to revive the “smoldering wick” of this 24 year-old Oblate who had been a priest for one year, the Founder had to take drastic action when it became clear that no change in behavior was possible.<\/h3>\n

I will attend to the business of your expulsion from the Society. For that, I must assemble the council which must decide on this question.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

\u00a0I do not think that the council will hesitate. Only after the decision am I able to give you the dispensation that you, in all likelihood, will not present to the Lord\u2019s tribunal as a claim to his mercy. If I am to judge by the signing of your letter, I am led to think that you believe yourself freed from your commitments by the very fact of making your request. Your behaviour at Vico would confirm that opinion…<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

I finish this letter broken-hearted with sorrow. I measure beforehand the disastrous consequences to your poor soul of the course you have just undertaken. I knew that you were very imperfect; but I did not suppose you to be unfaithful to the point you have shown. The poison was hidden in the wound. With more frankness on your part, the evil could probably have been remedied; but once Satan is allowed to penetrate a soul, he soon carries a person far away. That is your sorrowful story.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

I shall gather all your misleading letters, which I believed to be sincere, and burn them on the day that you are cut off from the family which had adopted you.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

Letter to Father Leopold Carles, 22 July 1844, EO X n 848<\/em><\/h3>\n

A sad ending.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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