{"id":5810,"date":"2024-07-19T01:00:26","date_gmt":"2024-07-18T23:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5810"},"modified":"2024-07-18T12:06:28","modified_gmt":"2024-07-18T10:06:28","slug":"you-belong-too-much-to-god-my-dear-children-not-to-offer-him-this-sorrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5810","title":{"rendered":"YOU BELONG TOO MUCH TO GOD, MY DEAR CHILDREN, NOT TO OFFER HIM THIS SORROW"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eugene encourages his Oblates in Oregon in their disappointment at being so coldly received by the bishop. He invites them to focus on what is the unchanging ideal of their vocation: oblation for the salvation of souls as is expressed in their Rule of Life.<\/h3>\n

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Establish from the beginning the invariable ideal of your Institute and a rule of wise conduct, exact and uniform, to which each must conform. In your missions more than everywhere else obedience to the superior and fidelity to the Rules must be observed.<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Your letter speaks of a trial, that is to say, of the behaviour of your Bishop, so ungrateful for the alacrity with which we have sent him personnel… For the rest, I see in this mission the finger of Providence and am not disturbed by this annoyance.<\/strong><\/h3>\n

You belong too much to God, my dear children, not to offer Him this sorrow, with so many other sacrifices. You fulfil your great mission independently of the satisfaction which could have been afforded to you by greater cordiality on the part of the one who should alleviate your solitude. I have seen on the map the area you have to evangelize, with what interest I follow you in your apostolic journeys.<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Letter to Fr. Pascal Ricard in Oregon, August 1848, EO I n 100<\/em><\/h3>\n

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

To see situations through the eyes of the Crucified Savior is the Mazenodian way of reading situations. In this way we recognize the finger of Providence in all that we experience – and the strength to be able to persevere.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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