{"id":5394,"date":"2023-02-28T01:00:42","date_gmt":"2023-02-28T00:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5394"},"modified":"2023-02-26T23:35:00","modified_gmt":"2023-02-26T22:35:00","slug":"tuesday-i-lent-i-have-always-put-all-my-confidence-in-the-goodness-of-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5394","title":{"rendered":"TUESDAY I LENT: I have always put all my confidence in the goodness of God"},"content":{"rendered":"

Your Father knows what you need before you ask him. (Mt. 6:8)<\/span><\/h3>\n

\u201cIt is true that I have always put all my confidence in the goodness of God… and I ought to avow, if ever I have prayed as much, never have I prayed with so much consolation (effect of an absolute but filial confidence) to the point of speaking to our Lord as I dare believe I would have done had I had the happiness of living when he moved about this earth to spread his goodness and grant to each what he asked.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

Letter of Eugene de Mazenod to Fr. Henri Tempier, 16 February 1826, EO VII n 224<\/em><\/h3>\n

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

My Lord God,
\nI have no idea where I am going.
\nI do not see the road ahead of me.
\nI cannot know for certain where it will end.
\nNor do I really know myself,
\nand the fact that I think I am following your will does not mean that I am actually doing so.<\/h3>\n

But I believe that the desire to please you
\ndoes in fact please you.
\nAnd I hope I have that desire in all that I am doing.
\nI hope that I will never do anything apart from that desire.<\/h3>\n

And I know that if I do this you will lead me by the right road, though I may know nothing about it.
\nTherefore will I trust you always though
\nI may seem to be lost and in the shadow of death.<\/h3>\n

I will not fear, for you are ever with me,
\nand you will never leave me to face my perils alone.<\/h3>\n

Thomas Merton<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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