{"id":64,"date":"2010-06-15T21:21:57","date_gmt":"2010-06-15T19:21:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=64"},"modified":"2010-09-12T15:02:08","modified_gmt":"2010-09-12T13:02:08","slug":"called-to-devote-myself-to-the-service-and-to-the-happiness-of-my-neighbour-whom-i-loved-with-the-love-of-jesus-christ-for-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=64","title":{"rendered":"CALLED TO DEVOTE MYSELF TO THE SERVICE AND TO THE HAPPINESS OF MY NEIGHBOUR WHOM I LOVED WITH THE LOVE OF JESUS CHRIST FOR MEN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Twenty eight years after his priestly ordination, Eugene reflects on the event and on the spirit with which he began to live his priestly vocation. He reads it always in the light of his conversion experience when he became aware of God\u2019s love for him. Consequently his chief occupation was \u201cto love him\u201d and his \u201cchief concern to make him loved.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h6><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>My first steps in the career that the good God had given me the grace to inspire me to embrace, from an early age, were directed by this predominant sentiment in my heart. I refused the venerable bishop [Bishop Jean Fran\u00e7ois de Demandolx, on 21 December 1811] who had consecrated me a priest, to stay on with him as his Vicar General and as his friend &#8211; these are the words that he used when he made this proposal.<\/strong><\/span><strong> <\/strong><\/h6>\n<h6><strong>The holy day of Christmas 1811, a memorable day for me, because it is then that it was given to me to offer for the first time the holy sacrifice of our altars, I refused to give in to such a touching mark of his goodness so as not to be turned away from the vocation that called me to devote myself to the service and to the happiness of my neighbor whom I loved with the love of Jesus Christ for men.<\/strong><\/h6>\n<h6><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><\/h6>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>Diary of 31 March 1839, O.W. XX<\/em><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twenty eight years after his priestly ordination, Eugene reflects on the event and on the spirit with which he began to live his priestly vocation. He reads it always in the light of his conversion experience when he became aware &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=64\">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":[54],"tags":[11,6],"class_list":["post-64","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diary","tag-gods-love","tag-priesthood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64","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=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}