{"id":60,"date":"2010-06-09T19:59:23","date_gmt":"2010-06-09T17:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=60"},"modified":"2010-09-06T14:24:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-06T12:24:00","slug":"the-church-has-all-too-much-to-lament-in-the-numerous-priests-who-bring-down-harm-on-her","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=60","title":{"rendered":"THE CHURCH HAS ALL TOO MUCH TO LAMENT IN THE NUMEROUS PRIESTS WHO BRING DOWN HARM ON HER"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Before returning to Aix, Eugene spent some time on a preparation retreat. He was marked by the suffering he had seen in Paris caused by the persecution of the Church by Napoleon, and the indifference of far too many priests to the state of the Church. The newly-ordained Eugene was on fire with his ideals and wished that this same fire would burn in others and heal the wounds of the Church, the body of Christ. It was this preoccupation that made him constantly come back to the question of \u201cbad priests\u201d &#8211; to the point of placing the reform of the clergy as one of the major ends of our Congregation in the Rules of 1818 and after.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h6><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Church has all too much to lament in the numerous priests who bring down harm on her by their lack of awareness of the evils she suffers, who are themselves in a state of torpor and dampen down all the flames of divine love which they should be lavishing among the faithful, for whom they are the Lord\u2019s organs and instruments of his mercy. <\/span><\/strong><\/h6>\n<h6><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><\/strong><\/h6>\n<h6><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> Is it my purpose to increase their number? God preserve me from such a fate. Better to die right now as I write these words.<\/span><\/strong><\/h6>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Retreat notes, August 1812, O.W. XV n. 106<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before returning to Aix, Eugene spent some time on a preparation retreat. He was marked by the suffering he had seen in Paris caused by the persecution of the Church by Napoleon, and the indifference of far too many priests &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=60\">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":[40],"tags":[4,6],"class_list":["post-60","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-retreat-notes","tag-church","tag-priesthood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60","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=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}