{"id":5571,"date":"2023-10-04T01:00:43","date_gmt":"2023-10-03T23:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5571"},"modified":"2023-10-01T16:06:37","modified_gmt":"2023-10-01T14:06:37","slug":"it-was-prayer-which-snatched-me-from-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5571","title":{"rendered":"IT WAS PRAYER WHICH SNATCHED ME FROM DEATH"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Eugene was no stranger to epidemics of typhus and cholera. Knowing their destructive effects, he was concerned for the Oblates in Canada who were living through a typhus outbreak<\/h3>\n

I was waiting, my dear son, with an impatience stemming from anxiety for a letter which might reassure me about your health and that of our men. I knew through Brother Trudeau to whom his mother had written that the poor Irish had brought you an epidemic of a most dangerous sort and not receiving anything from you, my anxiety grew every day although I well understood that if the mail had been missed I would have to wait patiently for the arrival of that which could only leave fifteen days later. At last your letter of the 28th reached me…<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

\u00a0In the meantime, since hearing the grim news, I have been saying Mass every day especially for you with the proper collect prayer which I have mandated and which I ask to be recited everywhere to obtain the Lord\u2019s protection for you. I know what prayers are worth against this illness, as for everything, for I was stricken myself by it in a cruel manner in 1814 and it was prayer which snatched me from death. I contracted it from the poor Austrian prisoners who brought it to us in as malignant a form as that which the unfortunate Irish have possibly brought to Canada and which they are spreading everywhere. I count on you not to let a single mail leave without a letter from you for – any one of them missed would plunge me into unspeakable grief. I am already worried enough!<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

I have not the heart to speak of other things but as I am pressed for time and the mail is due to leave today – that is I am obliged to post my letter today if I do not want to miss the departure on the first ship from Liverpool<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

Letter to Father Bruno Guigues in Canada, 26 August 1847, EO I n 87<\/em><\/h3>\n

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

“In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.”\u00a0\u00a0 (Mahatma Gandhi)<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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