{"id":5458,"date":"2023-04-21T01:00:04","date_gmt":"2023-04-20T23:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5458"},"modified":"2023-04-17T04:09:29","modified_gmt":"2023-04-17T02:09:29","slug":"i-am-with-my-church-always-to-the-end-of-the-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5458","title":{"rendered":"“I AM WITH MY CHURCH ALWAYS, TO THE END OF THE AGE”"},"content":{"rendered":"

As Bishop of Marseilles, Eugene wrote many pastoral letters to those entrusted to his care in the diocese. His Lenten letter of 1847 dealt with the death of the Pope and the election of his successor in the midst of turbulent times. Christianity was being persecuted and attacked on many fronts at this time, and during these stormy times that the Church was going through, Eugene assures people that God never abandoned it<\/h3>\n

When the death of Pope Gregory XVI, of happy memory, threw the Church into mourning, we invited you to offer prayers to the Lord for the father we had lost and to beg Heaven “to give us, among so many men in good relationship with God, the Pontiff most suitable to govern his people in the present times. We are living – we said – in such stormy times, when the “empire of darkness” (Lk 22:53) has become so powerful on earth, that it seems that we need the Lord, in his mercy, to grant us one of those extraordinary men whom he has raised up on other occasions to bring back the most beautiful days of the faith… \u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

Referring to the Conclave of cardinals gathered to elect a new Pope, Eugene continued:<\/h3>\n

the operations of the distinguished gathering were suddenly brought to a close by an unexpected effect of the assistance of him who said to his Church: “I am with you always, to the end of the age” (Mt 28:20). He had also said “that he would not leave us orphans” (Jn 14:18). And so, as soon as he had been invoked, the consoling spirit, the Paraclete he had promised us, came to make his choice, giving us a father in the person of the vicar of Jesus Christ, and the name of Pius IX, greeted by universal acclamations, became the known name of the Pontiff whom God had elected “to direct our steps in the ways of peace” (Lk 1:79).<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

Pastoral letter of Bishop de Mazenod to the Diocese of Marseilles for Lent 1847<\/em><\/h3>\n

Throughout his long letter the Bishop continually stressed that God never abandons the Church, the Body of Christ – a message still relevant for today.<\/h3>\n

“Christ\u2019s followers cannot expect better treatment in the world than their Master had.” \u00a0\u00a0Matthew Henry<\/h3>\n

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