{"id":6099,"date":"2025-08-08T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=6099"},"modified":"2025-08-06T23:02:00","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T21:02:00","slug":"helping-people-to-discover-the-meaning-jesus-gives-to-life-c-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=6099","title":{"rendered":"HELPING PEOPLE TO DISCOVER THE MEANING JESUS GIVES TO LIFE (C 7)"},"content":{"rendered":"

We will spare no effort to awaken or to reawaken the faith in the people to whom we are sent, and we will help them to discover \u201cwho Christ is\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

CC&RR, Constitution 7<\/h3>\n

Before his conversion journey, Eugene intellectually knew \u201cwho Christ is\u201d \u2013 after 25 years of religious observance he knew his catechism. What happened at his conversion was that this knowledge became experiential. He entered into a relationship with Jesus Christ that would be the characteristic quality of the rest of his life.<\/h3>\n

Conversion did not mean getting to know about Jesus but getting to know Jesus in a relationship that he became passionate about. From now on he would \u201cact in everything and for everything\u201d only for him and he would love him \u201cabove all else.\u201d<\/h3>\n

What he received was so powerful that he was impelled to share it with others \u2013 particularly those whose situation made it difficult to come to the same knowledge. These were the poor for Eugene, as he described in this letter to his mother:<\/h3>\n

As the Lord is my witness, what he wants of me is that I renounce a world where it is almost impossible to find salvation, such is the power of apostasy there; that I devote myself especially to his service and try to reawaken the faith that is becoming extinct among the poor; in a word, that I make myself available to carry out any orders he may wish to give me for his glory and the salvation of souls he has redeemed by his precious blood.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

Eugene’s letter to his mother, 29 June 1808, EO XV n. 27.<\/em><\/h3>\n

All who share in Eugene\u2019s charism participate in the same dynamic of working to lead others to the same experiential knowledge of the Savior. Each in our own way, and in our particular circumstances, has this mission of helping others in this process.<\/h3>\n

It is noteworthy that the text says \u201cwe will help them to discover \u2018who Christ is\u2019.\u201d Mission does not mean going to people to fill them with knowledge \u2013 it means journeying with them as they discover and deepen their understanding of the meaning of a relationship with Jesus. \u00a0Eugene\u2019s use of this phrase in the Preface speaks of helping people to understand that which Jesus Christ is for them (\u201cce que c\u2019est que J\u00e9sus Christ\u201d) \u2013 who he is in their lives and the meaning he gives.<\/h3>\n

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