{"id":5879,"date":"2024-10-23T01:00:50","date_gmt":"2024-10-22T23:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5879"},"modified":"2024-10-21T18:44:00","modified_gmt":"2024-10-21T16:44:00","slug":"the-sacrifice-of-my-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5879","title":{"rendered":"THE SACRIFICE OF MY LIFE"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><em><strong>Now that the work that God has called me to has been achieved, what could be a more happy event for me than to die, especially if the sacrifice of my life were to be accepted not only as expiation for my sins, but as a holocaust to the Lord, to appease God\u2019s anger and to turn away God\u2019s scourge from my people and especially from our priests whose life is so precious. Up to now only one of them has died, our poor Abb\u00e9 Martin; but all of you are threatened.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 80px; text-align: right;\"><em>Letter to Fr. Henri Tempier, 12 September 1849, EO X n 1018<\/em><\/h3>\n<h3>\n<strong>REFLECTION<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Let us not be distracted by the theological language of two centuries ago: today we have a different understanding of natural disasters and epidemics. What is important in this extract is that Eugene did offer his life for the salvation of his people in Marseilles.<\/p>\n<p>From the time of Eugene&#8217;s conversion journey, he wanted every aspect of his life to be an oblation, &#8220;all for God.&#8221; It was in the spirit of early centuries of the Church where the highest expression of oblation was martyrdom, the total gift of self to God. What is interesting about Eugene is that this martyrdom was to be achieved as a result of a gift of himself to God through serving others. For this reason we speak of the martyrdom of charity, as opposed to the martyrdom of blood.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that the work that God has called me to has been achieved, what could be a more happy event for me than to die, especially if the sacrifice of my life were to be accepted not only as expiation &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5879\">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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5879","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=5879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5879\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}