{"id":6058,"date":"2025-07-09T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=6058"},"modified":"2025-08-03T21:03:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T19:03:12","slug":"our-love-for-the-church-awe-at-the-communion-that-exists-among-children-of-one-same-father","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=6058","title":{"rendered":"OUR LOVE FOR THE CHURCH \u2013 AWE AT THE COMMUNION THAT EXISTS AMONG CHILDREN OF ONE SAME FATHER (C6)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>\u201cOur love for the Church inspires us\u2026\u201d<\/strong><\/em> (Constitution 6)<\/h3>\n<h3>As part of his search for the meaning of his life, his gradual journey of conversion, the 22 year-old Eugene read and studied and made notes:<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><em><strong>One of the things that strikes me most in religion is \u201ccatholicity\u201d, that communion that exists among children of one same Father who receives on high the intentions they form at the same time in lands so distant and who truly wills to give them in return a merit shared in common.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><em><strong>The idea that I am a member of that great family of which God himself is Head\u2026 seems to instantly make my soul surge, with an intensity that is difficult to express.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Jottings in Eugene&#8217;s notebook, May 1804, EO XIV, n 7<\/em><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\">\nToday, our Oblate Charismatic Family is present in over 60 countries. What an awe-inspiring thought that we are an expression of the communion that exists because we are all children if the same God as Church.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cOur love for the Church inspires us\u2026\u201d (Constitution 6) As part of his search for the meaning of his life, his gradual journey of conversion, the 22 year-old Eugene read and studied and made notes: One of the things that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=6058\">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-6058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6058","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=6058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6058\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}