{"id":5776,"date":"2024-06-13T01:00:55","date_gmt":"2024-06-12T23:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5776"},"modified":"2024-06-09T17:32:56","modified_gmt":"2024-06-09T15:32:56","slug":"the-episcopal-character-of-eugene-de-mazenod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5776","title":{"rendered":"THE EPISCOPAL CHARACTER OF EUGENE DE MAZENOD"},"content":{"rendered":"

Election day for the President of the Republic. I went to vote. The entire staff stood up to receive my vote. This act of respect for the character with which I am invested edified me.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

Eugene de Mazenod’s Diary, 10 December 1848, EO XXI<\/em><\/h3>\n

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

Eugene was convinced that a bishop shared in the responsibility given by Jesus Christ to the apostles and received the Holy Spirit to become the chief pastor of the diocese. In his personal diary he uses the word “character” (as opposed to “position”) in the theological sense of a man being transformed through the sacrament of Orders and given the power to celebrate the sacraments.<\/h3>\n

It was in this sense that he wanted people to recognize the bishop and not the person, and to acknowledge the office and character of the role he was invested in.<\/h3>\n

\u201cYou must all follow the lead of the bishop, as Jesus Christ followed that of the Father; follow the presbytery as you would the Apostles; reverence the deacons as you would God\u2019s commandment. Let no one do anything touching the Church, apart from the bishop. Let that celebration of the Eucharist be considered valid which is held under the bishop or anyone to whom he has committed it. Where the bishop appears, there let the people be, just as where Jesus Christ is, there is the Catholic Church.\u201d\u00a0 (Saint Ignatius, Martyr and Bishop of Antioch, Letter to the Smyrnaeans, 8.)<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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