{"id":5770,"date":"2024-06-05T01:00:52","date_gmt":"2024-06-04T23:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5770"},"modified":"2024-06-02T20:20:20","modified_gmt":"2024-06-02T18:20:20","slug":"the-pope-gave-me-his-personal-blessing-while-imploring-me-to-pray-and-to-have-prayers-said-for-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5770","title":{"rendered":"THE POPE GAVE ME HIS PERSONAL BLESSING, WHILE IMPLORING ME TO PRAY AND TO HAVE PRAYERS SAID FOR HIM"},"content":{"rendered":"

In November 1848 the situation deteriorated and the Pope had been forced to leave Rome. Eugene and the people of Marseilles renewed their invitation to him to take shelter in their city and many were convinced of his imminent arrival. This never happened, but Eugene noted in his diary:<\/h3>\n

All the same, I must not pass over in silence the gesture of extravagant kindness which I received from His Holiness who gave Fr. Hugues, bursar of the Redemptorists, the express order to stop in Marseille in order to visit me, to give me greetings from the Pope, and to tell me that he was giving me his personal blessing, while imploring me to pray and to have prayers said for him. That’s what decided me to publish a brief pastoral letter which will be the first published in France, as I was the first to order prayers at the time of the crisis in which the Pope found himself several months ago.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

Eugene de Mazenod’s Diary, 28 November 1848, EO XXI<\/em><\/h3>\n

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

“However, since the Supreme Pontiff possesses in his sacred person the fullness of apostolic power, and thus sums up in himself all the rights of the mission entrusted to Peter and the other Apostles, it is to him that we must direct our highest feelings of filial piety. He is the common Father, the Head of the great family of God’s children on earth.” (Bishop Eugene’s Pastoral Letter to the Diocese of Marseilles, 16 February 1860.)<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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