{"id":5710,"date":"2024-02-29T02:06:47","date_gmt":"2024-02-29T01:06:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5710"},"modified":"2024-02-29T02:06:47","modified_gmt":"2024-02-29T01:06:47","slug":"one-more-of-the-chosen-of-our-family-is-in-heaven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5710","title":{"rendered":"ONE MORE OF THE CHOSEN OF OUR FAMILY IS IN HEAVEN"},"content":{"rendered":"

Father Frederic Perron was 35 when he died of typhus, and had spent three years in England. He had worked in Penzance and then as superior of Grace Dieu in Leicestershire, and then was appointed superior of the community in Everingham, Yorkshire. He was an Oblate on whom Eugene had placed his confidence, and whose death was a cruel blow.<\/h3>\n

Yet Eugene was able to trust in God: “May the Lord be blessed in all things.”<\/h3>\n

Father Cooke writes me that our late Father Perron regained consciousness a few days ago, and that he never stopped talking about heavenly things right up to his last breath. This is another cruel loss, especially as we need ten more workers in England. May the Lord be blessed in all things. One more of the chosen of our family is in heaven; the assurance that our departed give us of their eternal happiness is truly remarkable. We can rightly apply to ourselves the words of Saint Alphonsus de Liguori who promised heaven to all who die in his Congregation. We have the same reason for confidence because it is perseverance in faithfulness to the commitment made with God, and the saintly death of all our members whom the Lord has called to himself confirming us in this reassurance.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

Letter to Fr Ambroise Vincens at N.-D. de L\u2019Osier, France, 27 February 1848, EO X n 969<\/em><\/h3>\n

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

The Book of Leviticus 19:1 states, “Be holy as I am holy,” and shows that the way to ensure this is through observance of the God’s Word. Eugene was convinced that every Oblate who lived by the Rule (which is our particular way of living the Word of God) and had been faithful to his oblation would join the Oblate community in heaven.<\/h3>\n

Religious life is a way of living our baptism as are all ways of life. All who “have been claimed for Christ our Savior” at baptism can have the same confidence: if we are faithful in life, God will be faithful at the time of our death.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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