{"id":5360,"date":"2023-02-02T01:00:07","date_gmt":"2023-02-02T00:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5360"},"modified":"2023-01-24T03:16:52","modified_gmt":"2023-01-24T02:16:52","slug":"the-sacrifice-of-his-life-to-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5360","title":{"rendered":"THE SACRIFICE OF HIS LIFE TO GOD"},"content":{"rendered":"

Father Ricard was chosen to be the leader of the first Oblate mission in the USA because he had all the necessary qualities and shared Eugene’s missionary vision and spirituality.<\/h3>\n

To found the mission of Oregon, a mission so remote and difficult, I needed an alter ego. He had to have virtue, good sense, love of regularity, real attachment to the Congregation and conformity of views and thoughts with the head of the family from whom he would be separated by 3000 leagues, a devout and experienced man full of the spirit of God, imbued with my spirit, who acts by himself as I myself would act. Only Father Ricard combined all these qualities.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

He did suffer from poor health, however.<\/h3>\n

But although he would have asked for it in time, I had good reasons to fear that he would have repugnance in accepting this mission. Yet on receiving my letter he went down into the lower church of Notre Dame de Lumi\u00e8res and made the sacrifice of his life to God. After that he took leave of everyone and came to me quite disposed to fulfil his mission. The courage and joy of his companions strengthened still more his resolution.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

Letter to Fr. Bruno Guigues, in Canada, 24 January 1847, EO I n 80<\/em><\/h3>\n

REFLECTION<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

In the final analysis, then, the true witness is the \u201cmartyr\u201d, the one who gives his or her life for Christ, reciprocating the gift that he has made to us of himself. \u201cThe primary reason for evangelizing is the love of Jesus which we have received, the experience of salvation which urges us to ever greater love of him\u201d (Pope Francis)<\/h3>\n

Today, may my focus be on the love of Jesus so as to allow my actions to speak louder than my words.<\/em><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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