{"id":6061,"date":"2025-07-11T01:00:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T23:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=6061"},"modified":"2025-08-03T21:02:51","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T19:02:51","slug":"our-love-for-the-church-our-suffering-mother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=6061","title":{"rendered":"OUR LOVE FOR THE CHURCH \u2013 OUR SUFFERING MOTHER (C6)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cOur love for the Church inspires us\u2026\u201d<\/strong><\/em> (Constitution 6)<\/h3>\n

As Eugene\u2019s reflection on his experience of Jesus Christ as his Savior deepened, so did his awareness of the suffering of his Body, the Church, as a result of the aftermath of the French Revolution. He was impelled to respond:<\/h3>\n

During my seminary days, I had the thought of making myself as useful as possible to the Church, our Mother, for whom the Lord had given me the grace always to have a filial love. The destitution in which I saw her had been one of the deciding motives for my embracing the priestly state.<\/strong> <\/em><\/h3>\n

Eugene’s M\u00e9moires, quoted in Rambert I p 47<\/em><\/h3>\n

Writing to his mother about the impossibility of ignoring the suffering of the Church:<\/h3>\n

Do you believe that a man who had a clear vision of the needs of the Church and who, despite the attraction God gives him to work at helping her, and other signs of His will, yet opted to sit back with arms folded, sighing softly to himself about all these evils, but not raising a finger to awaken even in the least degree men\u2019s hardened hearts, would rest in all good conscience? What an illusion\u2026 it would be enough if in the course of one\u2019s life one could help even a single soul to work out his salvation to make all one\u2019s labors worthwhile.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

Eugene’s letter to his mother, 4 April 1809, EO XIV n 50<\/em><\/h3>\n

\nI devoted myself to the Church because she was suffering persecution, was abandoned\u2026<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

Eugene’s letter to his father, 7 December 1814, EO XV n. 129<\/em><\/h3>\n

\nToday as we are painfully aware that the Church continues to be persecuted, can we sit with arms folded sighing sadly?<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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