{"id":5543,"date":"2023-09-01T01:00:33","date_gmt":"2023-08-31T23:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5543"},"modified":"2023-08-22T11:38:30","modified_gmt":"2023-08-22T09:38:30","slug":"our-words-to-you-have-not-been-without-result","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5543","title":{"rendered":"OUR WORDS TO YOU HAVE NOT BEEN WITHOUT RESULT"},"content":{"rendered":"

Three months after Bishop Eugene’s successful appeal to the people of his diocese for financial aid for those suffering in Ireland, Pope Pius IX issued an Encyclical Letter to all the countries of the world on the same topic.<\/h3>\n

Not long ago, we received an Encyclical Letter from our Holy Father the Pope, inviting all the Bishops of the Christian world to make an appeal to their flocks in favor of the unfortunate people of Ireland. We were still unaware of the Sovereign Pontiff’s intention when, moved by consideration of the magnitude of the evil afflicting our brethren, we anticipated the charitable invitation of the common Father of the faithful. Our words to you have not been without result;<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

The people of Marseilles had been very generous and were the first to respond.<\/h3>\n

Your hearts have understood and you have responded with an eagerness which, in addition to so many other good things you have done, has manifested in the presence of the entire Church the eminently Catholic spirit which animates you. Your alms for the Irish have merited your being cited as an example to the rest of France… Ireland has also been particularly consoled, my dear brethren, by your helpful sympathy.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

Having already been generous financially, Eugene invites them to respond in a different way: by converting their concern into support in prayer.<\/h3>\n

We have come today to present to you the Apostolic Encyclical. It is no longer precisely a request for your generosity; we are communicating it to you in order to request another kind of almsgiving, spiritual almsgiving. You must understand the Holy Father’s wish that we order public prayers to obtain from heaven the ending of the double scourge of famine and fever, which is desolating a region so dear to the Catholic Church, and to preserve other countries from the same calamities.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

Bishop Eugene’s Circular Letter to the people of Marseilles, 12 June 1847, EO III Circular n 3<\/em><\/h3>\n

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

“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.” (Mahatma Gandhi)<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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