{"id":59,"date":"2010-06-08T19:56:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-08T17:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=59"},"modified":"2010-09-03T14:46:03","modified_gmt":"2010-09-03T12:46:03","slug":"we-are-priests-for-the-church-alone-and-so-every-moment-of-our-time-is-hers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=59","title":{"rendered":"WE ARE PRIESTS FOR THE CHURCH ALONE AND SO EVERY MOMENT OF OUR TIME IS HERS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">After his ordination, Eugene spent a semester as a formator at St. Sulpice Seminary because the Sulpicians had been expelled by Napoleon, and so the senior ordained seminarians took over the seminary until a more permanent solution could be found. During this time Eugene is preparing himself (and his family) for his return to Aix. In this extract of a letter to his mother, he shows his clear understanding of his responsibilities to the Church as a priest:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h6><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In the past I have already alerted you as to my intentions in this regard: they are simply the consequences of the obligations that my state of life lays upon me. <\/span><\/strong><\/h6>\n<h6><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><\/strong><\/h6>\n<h6><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> Today\u2019s priests are not like those of old; we are priests for the Church alone and so every moment of our time is hers. <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><\/strong><\/h6>\n<h6><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><\/strong><\/h6>\n<h6><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> Thus, every moment not employed in prayer, study or the exercise of the holy ministry would be so much time robbed from Him to whose service we are wholly consecrated, taking into consideration the whole extent of the obligations we take on. <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><\/strong><\/h6>\n<h6><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><\/strong><\/h6>\n<h6><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> This is why no one should entertain any idea that on my return I shall be entering into the round of visits, and the observance of the so-called social niceties, etc., etc. All that sort of thing is out. My whole way of life has been thought out in advance, and nothing will make me change it, for I don\u2019t take a decision before thinking the matter out in God\u2019s presence and coming to see its rightness; after that the matter is closed. People may say I am uncivilized, a scoundrel even if they like; it\u2019s all the same to me, provided I am a good priest.<\/span><\/strong><\/h6>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Letter to his mother, 22 April 1812, O.W. XV n. 105<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After his ordination, Eugene spent a semester as a formator at St. Sulpice Seminary because the Sulpicians had been expelled by Napoleon, and so the senior ordained seminarians took over the seminary until a more permanent solution could be found. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=59\">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":[39],"tags":[4,6],"class_list":["post-59","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters","tag-church","tag-priesthood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59","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=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}