{"id":6068,"date":"2025-07-18T00:30:50","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T22:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=6068"},"modified":"2025-08-03T21:01:52","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T19:01:52","slug":"we-accept-loyally-with-an-enlightened-faith-the-guidance-and-teachings-of-the-successors-of-peter-and-the-apostles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=6068","title":{"rendered":"WE ACCEPT LOYALLY, WITH AN ENLIGHTENED FAITH, THE GUIDANCE AND TEACHINGS OF THE SUCCESSORS OF PETER AND THE APOSTLES (C6)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><em><strong>Our love for the Church inspires us to fulfil our mission in communion with the pastors whom the Lord has given to his people; we accept loyally, with an enlightened faith, the guidance and teachings of the successors of Peter and the Apostles<\/strong><\/em>. (Constitution 6)<\/h3>\n<h3>The very last pastoral letter that Bishop Eugene wrote before his death summed up his lifelong understanding and love for the Successor of Peter:<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><em><strong>However, since the Supreme Pontiff possesses in his sacred person the fullness of apostolic power, and thus sums up in himself all the rights of the mission entrusted to Peter and the other Apostles, it is to him that we must direct our highest feelings of filial piety. He is the common Father, the Head of the great family of God\u2019s children on earth.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Bishop Eugene\u2019s Pastoral Letter to the Diocese of Marseilles, 16 February 1860<\/em><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our love for the Church inspires us to fulfil our mission in communion with the pastors whom the Lord has given to his people; we accept loyally, with an enlightened faith, the guidance and teachings of the successors of Peter &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=6068\">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-6068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6068","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=6068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6068\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}