{"id":5703,"date":"2024-02-22T01:00:10","date_gmt":"2024-02-22T00:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5703"},"modified":"2024-02-17T23:42:26","modified_gmt":"2024-02-17T22:42:26","slug":"they-offered-their-ministry-to-the-wounded-of-whom-most-unfortunately-have-died","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5703","title":{"rendered":"THEY OFFERED THEIR MINISTRY TO THE WOUNDED OF WHOM MOST UNFORTUNATELY HAVE DIED"},"content":{"rendered":"

The good Lord has preserved us in the midst of a real danger, and many of our Fathers have nobly accomplished the duty of charity that circumstances imposed on them: they offered their ministry to the wounded of whom most unfortunately have died. Today we had a solemn service for all the National Guardsmen who were victims of this ambush.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

Letter to Fr Vincens at l’Osier, 1 July 1848, EO X n 981<\/em><\/h3>\n

Bishop Eugene wrote in his diary:<\/h3>\n

The ceremony was very imposing.\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

He had been dissuaded from acting as mediator in the riots in Marseilles, but his friend Archbishop Denis Affre (nephew of one of Eugene’s former teachers at St Sulpice) had tried to mediate in Paris<\/h3>\n

Alas! my spirit was so very preoccupied. The death of the archbishop of Paris, concerning which we received the definite news this morning, filled my soul with grief at the same time that I was deploring the loss of these good people fallen under the blows of the rioters.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

I consider the death of the archbishop of Paris as a great misfortune for the Church in the current situation.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

Eugene de Mazenod’s Diary, 1 July 1848, EO XXI<\/em><\/h3>\n

Hubenig explains:<\/h3>\n

Cardinal Denis Auguste Affre, the Archbishop of Paris, tried to make peace between the army and the workers behind the barricades in the Faubourg St-Antoine and fell victim himself to the carnage. If anyone among the hierarchy of France understood the emerging social order, if anyone saw that the problem was unjustifiable destitution and not simply destitution, it was Affre. While still just a priest he had already written prophetic articles about justice that made clear distinctions about the root causes of poverty. As the Cardinal Archbishop of Paris, he, more than any of his episcopal colleagues, could verify that his perspectives were true.<\/em><\/h3>\n

(Living in the Spirit\u2019s Fire<\/em>\u00a0 page 166).<\/h3>\n

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

“No one has greater love than this, to lay down one\u2019s life for one\u2019s friends” (John 15:3)<\/h3>\n

An invitation to go out of our way to meet the needs of others – to give up something of ourselves, our resources and talents to respond to those in need.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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