{"id":5508,"date":"2023-07-28T01:00:48","date_gmt":"2023-07-27T23:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5508"},"modified":"2023-07-22T03:01:26","modified_gmt":"2023-07-22T01:01:26","slug":"confide-ourselves-to-the-goodness-of-god-who-never-abandons-us-when-we-are-what-we-should-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5508","title":{"rendered":"CONFIDE OURSELVES TO THE GOODNESS OF GOD WHO NEVER ABANDONS US WHEN WE ARE WHAT WE SHOULD BE"},"content":{"rendered":"

After chiding Fr Allard for exaggerating in his critical expressions, Eugene gives him fatherly advice.<\/h3>\n

What then must be done? Let us believe we were mistaken and put all our efforts into deriving all possible benefit from the position in which the good God places us. One should then regret having pronounced oneself too strongly in a sense contrary to that which divine Providence has chosen. Instead of murmuring, let each be concerned with his duty and confide himself to the goodness of God who never abandons us when we are what we should be.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

Eugene constantly refers to the spirit of oblation, of giving ourselves to being God’s instruments by doing God’s will.<\/h3>\n

I like to repeat that we must comply with joy, happiness and the most entire surrender to the most holy will of God and cooperate with all our power in the accomplishing of His designs which can only be for the greater glory of His holy name and our own good, that is, the good of us who are his submissive and devoted children. Let no one draw back from this attitude and henceforth let all misgivings cease, all murmurs, all statements quite contrary, to these incontestable principles.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

As the father of the Oblate Family, Eugene concludes as he often did when writing to his sons:<\/h3>\n

Adieu, my dear Father Allard. Keep in mind my observations which even if they must be severe, weaken in no wise the esteem and affection that God gives me for all my children and for you in particular whom I bless with all my heart and tenderly embrace.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

Letter to Fr. Jean-Francois Allard in Canada, 8 and 9 July 1847, EO I n 85<\/em><\/h3>\n

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

“The supreme rule regarding fraternal correction is love: to want the good of our brothers and sisters” \u00a0(Pope Francis)<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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