{"id":61,"date":"2010-06-14T21:08:54","date_gmt":"2010-06-14T19:08:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=61"},"modified":"2010-09-08T21:19:33","modified_gmt":"2010-09-08T19:19:33","slug":"my-chief-occupation-will-be-to-love-him-my-chief-concern-to-make-him-loved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=61","title":{"rendered":"MY CHIEF OCCUPATION WILL BE TO LOVE HIM, MY CHIEF CONCERN TO MAKE HIM LOVED"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">After his return to Aix as a young priest, Eugene lived in his mother\u2019s house, together with Brother Maur (Trappist monk whose monastery the revolution had detroyed). A couple of months after his arrival, he did his annual retreat. As he outlines his meditation program he outlines what will be the core of his approach to people as a priest: to lead others to share in his same experience of being loved by God and loving in return. The events of the rest of his life showed that he remained faithful to this ideal to the end.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h6><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I will meditate on Jesus my love in his incarnation, his hidden life, his mission, his passion and death; but especially in his Sacrament and Sacrifice. My chief occupation will be to love him, my chief concern to make him loved. To this I will bend all my efforts, time, strength, and when after much toil I have succeeded in winning but a single act of love towards so good a Master, I will rightly consider myself very well paid.<\/span><\/strong><\/h6>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Retreat notes, December 1812, O.W. XV n. 109<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After his return to Aix as a young priest, Eugene lived in his mother\u2019s house, together with Brother Maur (Trappist monk whose monastery the revolution had detroyed). A couple of months after his arrival, he did his annual retreat. As &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=61\">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":[40],"tags":[11,12,6],"class_list":["post-61","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-retreat-notes","tag-gods-love","tag-oblation","tag-priesthood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61","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=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}