{"id":5580,"date":"2023-10-13T01:00:50","date_gmt":"2023-10-12T23:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5580"},"modified":"2023-10-11T03:10:46","modified_gmt":"2023-10-11T01:10:46","slug":"my-reputation-belongs-to-the-church-and-also-belongs-to-the-congregation-of-which-i-am-the-father-more-than-the-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5580","title":{"rendered":"MY REPUTATION BELONGS TO THE CHURCH AND ALSO BELONGS TO THE CONGREGATION OF WHICH I AM THE FATHER MORE THAN THE HEAD."},"content":{"rendered":"

In refuting the accusations against him by listing all the times that he refused honors and positions, Eugene now reveals something in his diary, intended for his eyes only, that he had kept a secret for many years:<\/h3>\n

I forgot a fact very pertinent to strengthening my argument. It is what happened in Rome when I went to see Pope Leo XII to have the rules and constitutions of our congregation approved. This great pope set his eyes upon me, for whom he had taken a very special liking, and wanted to keep me in Rome in order to admit me to the Roman prelature and lead me to the cardinalate. Such was his definite intention and not more than two years ago Cardinal Orioli divulged this secret, which I had always kept hidden.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

Did I let myself be seduced by this prospect, which might well have dazzled someone else? No, thank God, I only insisted more strongly with the Holy Father granting me what I had come to ask for: the approval of our institute, and it is perhaps to this selflessness that I owe the unexpected favor of having obtained what cardinals and secretariat officers had assured me was impossible.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

Did I let myself be attracted to this viewpoint which might well have been able to dazzle someone else? No, thanks be to God, I insisted only more strongly with the Holy Father that he grant me that for which I had come to ask him: the approbation of our institute, and it is perhaps to this indifference that is owed the unexpected favor of having obtained what the cardinals and the officials of the secretariats had assured me to be impossible.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

Eugene concludes his reflections on how he had always avoided personal honors:<\/h3>\n

After all these actions, will people be persuaded that those who have ascribed an ambitious outlook to me are slanderers? I insist on noting it because my reputation belongs to the Church and also belongs to the congregation of which I am the father more than the head.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

Eugene de Mazenod\u2019s Diary, 31 August 1847, EO XXI<\/em><\/h3>\n

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

“True humility is not an abject, groveling, self-despising spirit; it is but a right estimate of ourselves as God sees us.” (Tryon Edwards)<\/h3>\n

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