{"id":5275,"date":"2022-11-01T01:00:02","date_gmt":"2022-11-01T00:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5275"},"modified":"2022-10-27T03:32:10","modified_gmt":"2022-10-27T01:32:10","slug":"an-example-of-a-holy-priestly-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5275","title":{"rendered":"AN EXAMPLE OF A HOLY PRIESTLY LIFE"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.” Francis of Assisi<\/span><\/h3>\n

“L\u00e9on de Saboulin was born in Aix-en-Provence on September 14, 1801… He made his secondary studies at the college of Aix and later on at the lyceum of Lyon. On May 29, 1814, he was admitted to the confraternity of the Youth of Aix which had been founded the year before by Abb\u00e9 de Mazenod. Three of his brothers followed his example.<\/h3>\n

When he had finished his studies, L\u00e9on wanted to become a priest, but his fragile health and the assistance he had to provide for his mother prevented him from carrying out this project. He remained unmarried and, after the death of his brothers, took care of his mother until she died. He divided his time between study and charitable works.” Yvon Beaudoin ( https:\/\/www.omiworld.org\/lemma\/saboulin-leon-de\/<\/a>)<\/h3>\n

Eugene had kept in contact with this former member of his youth congregation, who now wanted to become a priest, but suffered poor health.<\/h3>\n

I have no hesitation in saying that if the health of Leon de Saboulin allows him to recite the Divine Office, he must not be turned away from becoming a priest, but we must allow him great latitude in doing his studies, so as not to exhaust him. He will be able to accomplish much good if only by saying Mass and giving an example of a holy priestly life.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

Letter to Fr Hippolyte Court\u00e8s in Aix en Provence, 17 July 1846, EO X n 907<\/em><\/h3>\n

L\u00e9on de Saboulin “was to give the example of a holy priestly life” for twenty five years of Oblate ministry.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.” Francis of Assisi “L\u00e9on de Saboulin was born in Aix-en-Provence on September 14, 1801… He made his secondary studies at the college of Aix … 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-5275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5275","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=5275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}