{"id":5783,"date":"2024-06-21T01:00:59","date_gmt":"2024-06-20T23:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5783"},"modified":"2024-06-19T08:56:56","modified_gmt":"2024-06-19T06:56:56","slug":"i-do-everything-as-if-it-wasnt-meant-to-be-and-i-pray-with-confidence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5783","title":{"rendered":"I DO EVERYTHING AS IF IT WASN’T MEANT TO BE AND I PRAY WITH CONFIDENCE"},"content":{"rendered":"

Continuing his heartfelt reflections on the young Oblate, Jean-Pierre Bernard who had just arrived in Canada and was dying of typhus, Eugene confided in his diary:<\/h3>\n

Since his ordination to the sub-diaconate, this dear son had done no other than grow rapidly in virtue. His generosity was unfailing. Passing through Paris, he kissed the relic of the martyr Perboyre and wrote to me, “You understand why?” He was so happy to sacrifice himself for the salvation of those who did not believe! […]<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

\nThe holy Bishop of Montreal has ordered a novena for him, and we’re still hoping for his recovery […] All I fear is that the Lord has found him ripe for heaven and will take this good worker away from us before he can carry out all that his good will inspired him to do. It’s a great sacrifice that the good Lord requires of me. I do everything as if it wasn’t meant to be and I pray with confidence. Who knows if God, in anticipation of these prayers which come from the depths of my heart and which my trust in his mercy inspires, will not have granted me the preservation of this precious child? This thought sustains me as I await the first letter from America.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

Eugene de Mazenod’s Diary, 6 March 1848, EO XXI<\/em><\/h3>\n

\nREFLECTION<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Prayer is an act of love; words are not needed. Even if sickness distracts from thoughts, all that is needed is the will to love.” (Saint Teresa of Avila)<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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