{"id":58,"date":"2010-06-07T19:51:20","date_gmt":"2010-06-07T17:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=58"},"modified":"2010-09-03T13:52:32","modified_gmt":"2010-09-03T11:52:32","slug":"the-unchanging-foundation-of-eugene%e2%80%99s-life-and-mission-%e2%80%9ci-wish-to-live-only-for-you%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=58","title":{"rendered":"THE UNCHANGING FOUNDATION OF EUGENE\u2019S LIFE AND MISSION: \u201cI WISH TO LIVE ONLY FOR YOU\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In these words, written a few hours before his priestly ordination, Eugene expresses what will be the central infallible foundation of his life and ministry as a priest. It is this ideal that led him to found a missionary congregation and to embrace religious life and the evangelical counsels a few years later. It is because of the heroic way in which he lived these words that the Church recognised in him a model of Gospel life and sanctity for us, and that led Pope Paul VI to define him as a person \u201cpassionate for Jesus Christ.\u201d It was because of these words that Eugene became a missionary: to lead others to discover his same experience of the joy of living \u201conly for God.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h6><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">You, you alone will be the sole object to which will tend all my affections and my every action. To please you, act for your glory, will be my daily task, the task of every moment of my life. I wish to live only for you, I wish to love you alone and all else in you and through you. I despise riches, I trample honours under foot; you are my all, replacing all else. My God, my love and my all: <em>Deus meus et omnia.<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/h6>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Notes made during the retreat in preparation for priestly ordination<br \/>\nDecember 1-21, O.W. XIV n.95<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Father Jett\u00e9 captures the heart of this relationship thus:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h6><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201c<strong>Adherence to Jesus Christ was a distinguishing feature of Eugene&#8217;s whole life. It was an experiential encounter with a person, the person of Jesus Christ, and the living relationship established between the two expressed in an ongoing fashion. This friendship showed itself through the events and grew through the pains and joys of life.&#8221;<\/strong><\/span><\/h6>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In these words, written a few hours before his priestly ordination, Eugene expresses what will be the central infallible foundation of his life and ministry as a priest. It is this ideal that led him to found a missionary congregation &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=58\">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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[11,12,6],"class_list":["post-58","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-retreat-notes","tag-gods-love","tag-oblation","tag-priesthood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58","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=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}