{"id":6141,"date":"2025-09-23T00:30:46","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T22:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=6141"},"modified":"2025-09-22T18:57:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T16:57:08","slug":"always-being-close-to-the-people-as-the-rationale-of-ministry-constitution-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=6141","title":{"rendered":"ALWAYS BEING CLOSE TO THE PEOPLE AS THE RATIONALE OF MINISTRY (Constitution 8)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; padding-left: 80px;\"><em><strong>We will always be close to the people with whom we work, taking into account their values and aspirations.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; padding-left: 80px; text-align: right;\"><em>Constitution 8<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One of Eugene\u2019s major ministries after his ordination was to the youth of Aix. Looking back on this ministry, Eugene described how his closeness to them was the rationale of his pastoral success with them as they reacted positively to his initiatives:<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; padding-left: 80px;\"><em><strong>\u2026 among these youth who looked on me as their father, I only came across souls full of recognition, hearts full of affection that responded perfectly to the tender charity that I felt for them. They loved me to the point that some mothers declared that they would have been jealous had not this sentiment shown the goodness of their children, but that in truth they loved me more than they loved them, their own mothers.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; padding-left: 80px; text-align: right;\"><em>Eugene&#8217;s Diary, 31 March 1839, EO XX.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He dedicated every Thursday and Sunday to being with the youth, as well as being available to them when they wanted to speak with him at other times.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; padding-left: 80px;\"><em><strong>If I do not watch out these young people will take all my time. It seems they cannot live without me, and I can really perceive the good that the Lord does them through my ministry.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: right;\"><em>Letter to Charles Forbin-Janson, June 1814, EO XV, n 125.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-6142\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/C8-1-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"261\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/C8-1-1.png 790w, https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/C8-1-1-300x157.png 300w, https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/C8-1-1-768x401.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We will always be close to the people with whom we work, taking into account their values and aspirations. Constitution 8 One of Eugene\u2019s major ministries after his ordination was to the youth of Aix. Looking back on this ministry, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=6141\">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-6141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6141","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=6141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}