{"id":5252,"date":"2022-10-14T01:00:01","date_gmt":"2022-10-14T00:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5252"},"modified":"2022-10-06T21:24:43","modified_gmt":"2022-10-06T20:24:43","slug":"oraison-we-will-find-ourselves-again-at-the-feet-of-our-lord","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5252","title":{"rendered":"ORAISON: WE WILL FIND OURSELVES AGAIN AT THE FEET OF OUR LORD"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Praying for them each day during my oraison before the Blessed Sacrament. I give them all a kind of rendezvous in the adorable Heart of our divine Saviour.” (Eugene de Mazenod 1856)<\/span><\/h3>\n

One of the joys of Eugene\u2019s life as Founder was to communicate with his Oblate sons. As Bishop of Marseilles, however, he was frustrated because he never managed to find enough time to respond to their letters in his busy schedule. As a result he had a specific way of communing with the Oblates scattered all over France and the world. This letter to Father Etienne Semeria is an example of his paternal affection and communion.<\/h3>\n

I cannot explain even to myself, my very dear son, how it happens that I delayed so long in writing to you. Your letter gives me so much pleasure that it would be the least I could do to write you and thank you for the care you take to write to me so frequently, but what can you do? You will empathize with my position since you cannot doubt my feelings. I love you so affectionately that I cannot speak of you without happiness, and that happens often. I then plan to write to you, now I am disturbed for one reason, then for another, and fifty other letters take precedence over the one I would have had the greatest pleasure to write.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

Today, for example, I had in no way to dry out my inkwell before coming to you, because I was very determined to write to you before night, and I can hardly see to trace these lines. At least, your letter already begun will stay on my desk and will be first in line when I find time to take up the pen again, because they will soon come to take it from my hands this evening.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

He then deals with a few other matters and continues:<\/h3>\n

… (I can\u2019t see any more, until tomorrow.) I now go to chapel, it is a good hour. We will find ourselves again at the feet of our Lord.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

Letter to Fr. Etienne Semeria in Corsica, 20 November 1845, EO X n 886<\/em><\/h3>\n

” We will find ourselves again at the feet of our Lord” refers to the way in which Eugene united himself with each Oblate every evening in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament. Here, in prayer he could commune with each of his sons. This ongoing practice of uniting in the presence of Jesus, no matter in which part of the world we find ourselves, is referred to as “oraison.” (See: https:\/\/sites.google.com\/view\/mazenodianfamily\/monthly-oraison<\/a>)<\/h3>\n

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“Praying for them each day during my oraison before the Blessed Sacrament. I give them all a kind of rendezvous in the adorable Heart of our divine Saviour.” (Eugene de Mazenod 1856) One of the joys of Eugene\u2019s life as … Continue reading →<\/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-5252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5252","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=5252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}