{"id":5509,"date":"2023-07-31T01:00:46","date_gmt":"2023-07-30T23:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5509"},"modified":"2023-07-22T03:14:07","modified_gmt":"2023-07-22T01:14:07","slug":"i-have-never-repented-of-having-cooperated-in-something-that-i-have-believed-before-god-to-be-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5509","title":{"rendered":"I HAVE NEVER REPENTED OF HAVING COOPERATED IN SOMETHING THAT I HAVE BELIEVED, BEFORE GOD, TO BE GOOD"},"content":{"rendered":"

The proposed appointment of Fr Bruno Guigues to the episcopacy caused agitation among some of the Canadian Oblates who appreciated his gifts and administrative abilities and did not want to lose his active presence in his role as the Oblate superior. This could not have been very pleasant for Guigues, and so Eugene wrote to support him.<\/h3>\n

My very dear friend, although tortured by the innumerable letters which the good Father Allard writes to ask me to prevent your episcopate and that for very honest but exaggerated reasons, I cannot repent of having given my consent to your election.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

I could have been troubled by the representations provoked by the love of our Fathers for the Congregation and for you, but never have I repented of having cooperated in something that I have believed, before God, to be good, opportune, advantageous for the Church and very honourable for our Congregation which could suffer no detriment but which, on the contrary, should derive great advantages from this measure…<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

Letter to Fr. Bruno Guigues in Canada, 7 June 1847, EO I n 84<\/em><\/h3>\n

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

Having convictions can be defined as being so thoroughly convinced that Christ and His Word are both objectively true and relationally meaningful that you act on your beliefs regardless of the consequences.<\/h3>\n

– Josh McDowell<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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