{"id":5774,"date":"2024-06-11T01:00:20","date_gmt":"2024-06-10T23:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5774"},"modified":"2024-06-09T12:33:07","modified_gmt":"2024-06-09T10:33:07","slug":"i-was-deeply-affected-by-this-loss-as-i-am-by-the-loss-of-all-those-for-whom-i-am-a-father-in-jesus-christ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5774","title":{"rendered":"I WAS DEEPLY AFFECTED BY THIS LOSS AS I AM BY THE LOSS OF ALL THOSE FOR WHOM I AM A FATHER IN JESUS CHRIST"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><\/h3>\n<h3>Bishop Eugene regarded himself as much a father of his diocesan clergy as he did of the Oblates. This was especially the case if he been the bishop who ordained them to the priesthood. In his Diary he notes his sadness at the sudden death of a 24 year-old diocesan priest whom he had ordained.<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><em><strong>I said Holy Mass for the young priest Chaillan, vicar at Saint-Cannat who just died of small pox, contracted from an ill person to whom he had ministered. I was deeply affected by this loss as I am by the loss of all those for whom I am a father in Jesus Christ. I acutely feel how much I am attached to them in every circumstance important to them, but especially when death takes them from me. It could be said that I am bonded to them with ties of blood.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Eugene de Mazenod&#8217;s Diary, 18 November 1848, EO XXI<\/em><\/h3>\n<h3><strong>REFLECTION<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h3>The concept of spiritual fatherhood was very important for Eugene. He understood his love for his spiritual children as a reflection of God&#8217;s loving parental heart.<\/h3>\n<h3>Today, all of us who are touched by Eugene&#8217;s charism can look at him as a spiritual father who mirrors God&#8217;s love for us in our daily life.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bishop Eugene regarded himself as much a father of his diocesan clergy as he did of the Oblates. This was especially the case if he been the bishop who ordained them to the priesthood. In his Diary he notes his &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5774\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5774","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=5774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5774\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}