{"id":5411,"date":"2023-03-13T01:00:45","date_gmt":"2023-03-13T00:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5411"},"modified":"2023-03-10T19:08:28","modified_gmt":"2023-03-10T18:08:28","slug":"monday-iii-lent-let-us-always-have-the-tenderness-of-a-father-towards-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5411","title":{"rendered":"MONDAY III LENT: let us always have the tenderness of a father towards all"},"content":{"rendered":"

“No prophet is accepted in his own native place.”\u00a0(Lk. 4: 24)<\/span><\/p>\n

We are the ministers of his mercy, and so let us always have the tenderness of a father towards all; let us easily forget the insults that are sometimes committed against us in the exercise of our ministry as the good Lord wishes to forget the offences continually being committed against him. The father of the prodigal son was not content with putting the best robe on him and having a ring put on his finger, he had the fatted calf killed as well.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Letter to Bruno Guigues, 20 February 1837, EO IX n 605<\/em><\/p>\n

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REFLECTION<\/strong><\/p>\n

Lord, make me a channel of Your peace,
\nwhere there is hatred, let me sow love;
\nwhere there is injury, pardon;
\nwhere there is doubt, faith;
\nwhere there is despair, hope;
\nwhere there is darkness, light;
\nwhere there is sadness, joy;
\nwhere there is despair, hope;
\nwhere there is darkness, light;
\nwhere there is sadness, joy.<\/p>\n

O, Divine Master, grant that I may Lord, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console;
\nto be understood as to understand;
\nto be loved as to love;
\nFor it is in giving that we receive;
\nit is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
\nit is in dying that we are born again to Eternal Life.<\/p>\n

(Prayer of St. Francis)<\/p>\n

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