{"id":5504,"date":"2023-07-25T01:00:36","date_gmt":"2023-07-24T23:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5504"},"modified":"2023-07-22T02:30:36","modified_gmt":"2023-07-22T00:30:36","slug":"i-have-placed-the-matter-in-gods-hands-wishing-only-to-do-his-holy-will-i-am-perfectly-at-rest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5504","title":{"rendered":"I HAVE PLACED THE MATTER IN GOD\u2019S HANDS, WISHING ONLY TO DO HIS HOLY WILL. I AM PERFECTLY AT REST"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eugene’s closeness to God was such that he placed his major administrative decisions into God’s guiding hands. This is clearly shown when he writes to Fr Guigues about his episcopal appointment to Bytown:<\/h3>\n

I have placed the matter in God\u2019s hands, wishing only to do his holy will. I am perfectly at rest. I have done my duty throughout in this affair. God knows it and the whole Congregation will attain this conviction when she will see the results.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

When the time comes you will have to prove that our Fathers were mistaken in their anxieties concerning your episcopate, worries inspired by their attachment to the Congregation and to you.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

I will only have one regret, that of not being able to impose my hands upon you myself, but 1500 leagues are an insurmountable obstacle.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

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

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

St Vincent de Paul was another influential saint for Eugene. He too was convinced of the power of entrusting ourselves and our decisions to God’s providential care.<\/h3>\n

“Divine Providence is never wanting in things undertaken at Its command. Even though the whole world should rise up and destroy us, nothing could happen but what is pleasing to God. The less there is of a person in affairs, the more there is of God.” (St Vincent de Paul)<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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