{"id":5747,"date":"2024-04-08T01:00:18","date_gmt":"2024-04-07T23:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5747"},"modified":"2024-04-07T15:25:23","modified_gmt":"2024-04-07T13:25:23","slug":"your-weak-body-operates-in-response-to-the-will-of-your-active-spirit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5747","title":{"rendered":"YOUR WEAK BODY OPERATES IN RESPONSE TO THE WILL OF YOUR ACTIVE SPIRIT"},"content":{"rendered":"

“When Father de Mazenod left for Marseilles in 1823, Father Court\u00e8s was appointed superior of the house in Aix, a post he held until his death… The only break in Father Court\u00e8s\u2019 stay in Aix was the founding of the house in Limoges in November 1847. To get this community off to a good start, the Founder wanted a man in whom he had complete confidence, and so he chose Father Court\u00e8s as interim superior… On February 22, 1848, the General Council noted that Father Court\u00e8s was courageously and admirably fulfilling the duties entrusted to him in Limoges. He was definitely back at Aix in August 1848. Here he stayed until he died on June 3, 1863.” (https:\/\/www.omiworld.org\/lemma\/courtes-jean-joseph-hippolyte\/<\/a>)<\/h3>\n

When Court\u00e8s had finished in Limoges and returned to Aix, Eugene wrote a note of admiration and encouragement:<\/h3>\n

You are truly an admirable man, my dear Court\u00e8s. Your weak body operates in response to the will of your active spirit, and you make it do what you want. I cannot tell you how I rejoice seeing you get into action and showing what you are worth. I am all the happier that, everything considered, your health is better when you are active.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

Letter to Hippolyte Court\u00e8s in Aix, 18 August 1848, EO X n 984<\/em><\/h3>\n

Eleven years earlier, Eugene had expressed similar sentiments:<\/h3>\n

Dear friend, convince yourself well that I would like to provide you with everything you could wish for at the cost of my own rest; that I feel your sufferings as if they were my own, that the day you will be satisfied, I will be overcome by joy; but my dear son, why do you consider yourself to be merely an ordinary member of the Congregation? <\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

In my opinion, you are one of its pivotal points, you form part of the structure\u2019s foundations, you are identified and united with the Head, and so you must expect to experience all the vicissitudes, to withstand all the shocks, to fight offensively and defensively according to the Institute\u2019s need. <\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

This is a kind of solidarity which you and an infinitely small number of others share with me.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

Letter to Hippolyte Court\u00e8s, 5 March 1837, EO IX n 607<\/em><\/h3>\n

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

Despite his poor health, Hippolyte Court\u00e8s was totally dedicated and determined to preach the Gospel and always be of assistance to the most abandoned in Aix.<\/h3>\n

\u201cIf you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.\u201d \u2015 Booker T. Washington<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“When Father de Mazenod left for Marseilles in 1823, Father Court\u00e8s was appointed superior of the house in Aix, a post he held until his death… The only break in Father Court\u00e8s\u2019 stay in Aix was the founding of the … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5747\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}