{"id":5886,"date":"2024-10-30T02:46:07","date_gmt":"2024-10-30T01:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5886"},"modified":"2024-10-30T02:46:07","modified_gmt":"2024-10-30T01:46:07","slug":"i-felt-confident-that-he-was-in-heaven-while-we-were-here-praying-for-him-on-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5886","title":{"rendered":"I FELT CONFIDENT THAT HE WAS IN HEAVEN WHILE WE WERE HERE PRAYING FOR HIM ON EARTH"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><em><strong>Today then, I did the ordination to the diaconate of Brother d&#8217;Herbomez with a great sadness in my heart. I left the altar of the ordination and went to the seminary to assist at the requiem Mass which was sung in the presence of the body of our dear Fr. Mounier. Seeing him laid out in his modest coffin, I could not but reflect on the virtues which adorned his soul, his characteristic goodness, his kindness, his humility, his customary deference towards his superiors, his profound veneration for the sacred character invested in his Superior General, his zeal for the sanctification and the perfection of the brothers for whom he was responsible; these were so many qualities which entitled him to glory, and I felt confident that he was in heaven while we were here praying for him on earth.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Eugene de Mazenod\u2019s Diary, October 1849, EO XXII<\/em><\/h3>\n<h3><strong>REFLECTION<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h3>How blessed we are to have our faith in the Resurrection and in the communion of saints. When someone close to us has passed, and was a person of faith, we are comforted by the assurance that the person continues to be close to us in the presence of our Risen Savior.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today then, I did the ordination to the diaconate of Brother d&#8217;Herbomez with a great sadness in my heart. I left the altar of the ordination and went to the seminary to assist at the requiem Mass which was sung &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5886\">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,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5886","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=5886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5886\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}