{"id":5882,"date":"2024-10-25T01:00:59","date_gmt":"2024-10-24T23:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5882"},"modified":"2024-10-23T18:53:04","modified_gmt":"2024-10-23T16:53:04","slug":"the-sublime-priesthood-with-all-the-gifts-of-god-which-will-make-your-ministry-fruitful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5882","title":{"rendered":"THE SUBLIME PRIESTHOOD WITH ALL THE GIFTS OF GOD WHICH WILL MAKE YOUR MINISTRY FRUITFUL"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eugene’s visit to the Nancy area was to have included the ordination to the priesthood of Ferdinand Grenier, but Eugene had to cut short his visit to rush back to Marseilles because of the outbreak of cholera<\/h3>\n

You would have understood that I had always wanted to impose hands on you myself… The good Lord has deprived me of that consolation; I offer it in sacrifice…<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

Allow my heart to have all the regret of having travelled more than 200 leagues to have the consolation of imposing my hands and then having to leave without being able to communicate to you the sublime priesthood with all the gifts of God which will make your ministry fruitful. These are some of the painful things which occur in life. I unite myself with you at least in spirit and pray the most abundant blessings of the Lord are showered upon you. Receive the first assurances from the blessing that I give you as I embrace you with all my heart.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

Letter to Fr. Ferdinand Grenier, in Nancy, 13 September 1849, EO X n 1019<\/em><\/h3>\n

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

Eugene, who always considered himself the spiritual father of each Oblate, saw this paternity doubled in the Oblate if he was able to confer the sacrament of priestly ordination on him.<\/h3>\n

“Can I recall without emotion that the first fruit of my fecundity was the precious Father Casimir Aubert, the first on whom I imposed hands. No one could guess what transpired in my soul when in profound recollection I invoked the sovereign priest Jesus Christ with all the power with which I was invested to bring about this great miracle, and lifted up my hands over the dear head of my well-beloved son and passed on to him a share of that abundance of grace and power of which I had myself received the plenitude some months before.<\/h3>\n

\u2026 it seemed to me, I say, that my own spirit communicated itself to him, that my heart expanded in the outpouring of a charity, a supernatural love that produced in its turn something more than human. It seemed to me that I could say like our divine Master that a power had gone out from me and I knew it… This miracle is worked in every ordination I perform.” (Eugene de Mazenod’s Diary, 25 March 1837, EO XVIII n 18)<\/h3>\n

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