{"id":52,"date":"2010-06-02T19:24:24","date_gmt":"2010-06-02T17:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=52"},"modified":"2012-03-04T12:05:30","modified_gmt":"2012-03-04T10:05:30","slug":"for-a-priest-the-value-of-a-single-soul-ransomed-by-the-man-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=52","title":{"rendered":"FOR A PRIEST THE VALUE OF A SINGLE SOUL RANSOMED BY THE MAN-GOD"},"content":{"rendered":"

In continuing to try to convince his mother of the value of his vocation, Eugene uses the idea of the co-operator of the Saviour\u2019s whole ministry being worthwhile even if he only brings one person to know salvation. He then shows his mother how her \u201csacrifice\u201d of her son will be beneficial for her own salvation.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Dear mother, if you really grasped a great truth, that souls ransomed by the Man-God\u2019s blood are so precious that, even if every human being, past, present and to come, were to spend, to save just one single one, everything they have by way of talents, wealth and life, it would still be time well, nay admirably well spent, then far from lamenting that your son is consecrating himself to this divine ministry, you would be forever blessing God because, in his mercy, he has graciously willed to call me to so high an honour by a vocation which so obviously comes from Him.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/h5>\n
So dismiss all the thoughts and anxieties that are plaguing you as being temptations of the evil spirit: that is what they are; that implacable enemy of all that is good cannot bear to see the holy religion of J.C., which he is always trying with renewed fury to make more odious and despicable, rise again one day in the hearts of many by the quality of the individual who devotes himself to its service.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/h5>\n
By submitting yourself joyfully to the designs Providence has over me, you will have a share in all the good I hope to accomplish one day by God\u2019s grace; and, on the day of judgment, you will be able to say with confidence to the Sovereign Judge: yes, it is true, I have offended you, but I gave you a son you kindly wanted for your service to save a large number of souls who without him would have cursed you eternally in hell; so place, in the balance of my good works, the sacrifice I made you of my only son, a willing sacrifice or at least one made with truly Christian resignation and which, for that reason, must count in my favour.<\/span><\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Letter to Madame de Mazenod, 11 October 1809, O.W. XIV n. 61<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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