{"id":6070,"date":"2025-07-22T01:00:56","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T23:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=6070"},"modified":"2025-08-03T21:01:29","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T19:01:29","slug":"the-pope-feels-all-the-anguish-of-the-church-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=6070","title":{"rendered":"THE POPE FEELS ALL THE ANGUISH OF THE CHURCH (C6)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><em><strong>Our love for the Church inspires us to\u2026 accept loyally, with an enlightened faith, the guidance and teachings of the successors of Peter and the Apostles<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 80px; text-align: right;\">(Constitution 6)<\/h3>\n<h3>Writing to the people of his diocese, Bishop Eugene presented the people of his diocese with Pope Pius IX\u2019s letter to the universal Church asking for help for the victims of the terrible famine in Ireland. It gives an interesting glimpse into Eugene\u2019s understanding of the Pope and the suffering connected with his responsibility. He begins by paraphrasing St Paul\u2019s text, \u201cI am under daily pressure because of my concern for all the churches\u201d (2 Corinthians 11:28), and continues:<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><em><strong>Chosen by Heaven to represent the Supreme Shepherd of souls throughout the world, he sees the Church militant, obliged to endure unceasingly terrible attacks and to withstand harsh struggles.<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong>He feels all the anguish of the Bride of Jesus Christ, whose heart is stricken by all the blows directed against her and torn by all the wounds she receives.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><em>Bishop Eugene\u2019s Circular Letter to the people of Marseilles, 12 June 1847, EO III Circular n 3<\/em><\/h3>\n<h3>Speaking of the sufferings of the Church, who is the Bride of Christ, Eugene\u2019s earlier language of the Preface of 1818 is echoed: \u201cThe Church\u2026 has in our days been cruelly ravaged. The beloved spouse of God\u2019s only begotten Son is torn with anguish\u2026\u201d<\/h3>\n<h3>The Church continues to be \u201ccruelly ravaged\u201d today and in unity with Pope Leo how do we respond to the suffering of our Church, the Body of Christ, who \u201cendures unceasingly terrible attacks and withstands harsh struggles.\u201d<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our love for the Church inspires us to\u2026 accept loyally, with an enlightened faith, the guidance and teachings of the successors of Peter and the Apostles (Constitution 6) Writing to the people of his diocese, Bishop Eugene presented the people &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=6070\">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-6070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6070","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=6070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6070\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}