{"id":5789,"date":"2024-06-27T01:00:13","date_gmt":"2024-06-26T23:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5789"},"modified":"2024-06-23T11:59:47","modified_gmt":"2024-06-23T09:59:47","slug":"he-has-a-good-heart-and-has-shown-great-generosity-in-being-ready-to-assure-his-salvation-by-a-way-that-is-so-difficult","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5789","title":{"rendered":"HE HAS A GOOD HEART AND HAS SHOWN GREAT GENEROSITY IN BEING READY TO ASSURE HIS SALVATION BY A WAY THAT IS SO DIFFICULT"},"content":{"rendered":"

In earlier entries https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5368<\/a> and following) we had met the Canadian Father Pierre Fisette, who had been sent to work in France. He was a very likeable person, but his vanity, lack of piety and prayerfulness had worried Eugene, who despaired of his behavior. Yet Eugene persevered in being a loving father and accompanied him. Eugene’s perseverance paid off, as we see in this letter he wrote to Bishop Bourget of Montreal.<\/h3>\n

Shall I add a few words about the Canadians over here? Fisette has remained with the Trappists after having passed through the Chartreuse. He has been a novice for some months at Aiguebelles.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

[…] I pray God that Fisette will persevere with the Trappists. He has written to me several times and I to him for he retains for the Congregation and for me personally an extraordinary affection. Poor child! I love him ever so much. He has a good heart and one should add that he has shown great generosity in being ready to assure his salvation by a way that is so difficult. This is heroism. Pray, Monseigneur, also for him and never forget me before the Lord in return for the veneration and the friendship I have for you.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

Letter to Bishop Bourget of Montreal, 12 February 1848, EO I n 93<\/em><\/h3>\n

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

Fr. Fisette’s conversion was not a flash in the pan. He remained a Trappist monk for thirty years until his death in the Trappist monastery that he had founded in Staou\u00e9li in Algeria.<\/h3>\n

Saint Monica prayed for seventeen years for her son’s conversion and when it happened was able to say: \u201cSon, for my own part I no longer find joy in anything in this world. What I am still to do here and why I am here I know not, now that I no longer hope for anything from this world. One thing there was, for which I desired to remain still a little longer in this life, that I should see you a Catholic Christian before I died. This God has granted me in superabundance, in that I now see you His servant to the contempt of all worldly happiness. What then am I doing here?\u201d<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In earlier entries https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5368 and following) we had met the Canadian Father Pierre Fisette, who had been sent to work in France. He was a very likeable person, but his vanity, lack of piety and prayerfulness had worried Eugene, who … 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,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5789","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=5789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}