{"id":5257,"date":"2022-10-20T01:00:28","date_gmt":"2022-10-20T00:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5257"},"modified":"2022-10-14T03:25:43","modified_gmt":"2022-10-14T02:25:43","slug":"i-am-the-one-who-organized-it-who-has-taken-out-all-the-weeds-who-has-nurtured-it-who-has-made-it-what-it-is-as-everybody-knows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5257","title":{"rendered":"I AM THE ONE WHO ORGANIZED IT, WHO HAS TAKEN OUT ALL THE WEEDS, WHO HAS NURTURED IT, WHO HAS MADE IT WHAT IT IS, AS EVERYBODY KNOWS"},"content":{"rendered":"

” I must in a word consume myself for it, be ready to sacrifice my leisure, my desire, rest, life itself for it.” (Bishop Eugene de Mazenod)<\/span><\/h3>\n

In July, the Archbishop of Aix en Provence had died and some rumors were circulating that perhaps Bishop Eugene would be his successor. He had no such ambition as he was totally given to his Diocese of Marseilles.<\/h3>\n

Well, someone has told me that certain priests of Aix, afraid that I might be named Archbishop, got together to write a pamphlet against me and thus prevent such a misfortune. These poor folks could easily have spared themselves the trouble of this crime if they had known how far such a change, as any other, is from my mind…<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

The assessment that he gives of his own diocese was no idle and swollen-headed boast – it was clear that these things had been achieved in the second -largest city of France.<\/h3>\n

Let them be reassured: there is no archbishopric in the whole world which tempts me and which I might prefer to my present diocese to which everything ties me, since I am the one who organized it, who has taken out all the weeds, who has nurtured it, who has made it what it is, as everybody knows.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

Letter to Fr Hippolyte Court\u00e8s in Aix en Provence, 27 July 1846, EO X n 908<\/em><\/h3>\n

Nine years before he had made this resolution:<\/h3>\n

I must attach myself to this people as a father to his children.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

My existence, my life, all my being must be consecrated to it, I must have no thought but for its good, no fears other than I have not done enough for its welfare and sanctification, no other concern than that which must include all its spiritual interests and even in a certain way its temporal welfare.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

I must in a word consume myself for it, be ready to sacrifice my leisure, my desire, rest, life itself for it.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

Retreat preparatory to taking possession of the episcopal see of Marseilles, May 1837, EO XV n 185<\/em><\/h3>\n

Eugene’s total oblation for his people was unmistakably bearing fruit.<\/h3>\n

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