{"id":74,"date":"2010-06-20T22:47:04","date_gmt":"2010-06-20T20:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=74"},"modified":"2010-09-17T21:45:45","modified_gmt":"2010-09-17T19:45:45","slug":"grant-that-i-may-reawaken-many-foolish-people-from-the-fatal-indifference-that-brings-them-to-their-doom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=74","title":{"rendered":"GRANT THAT I MAY REAWAKEN MANY FOOLISH PEOPLE FROM THE FATAL INDIFFERENCE THAT BRINGS THEM TO THEIR DOOM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Eugene continues his sermon by presenting the indifference of the post-Revolution French to God and invites \u201cyou poor of Jesus Christ\u201d in the Madeleine to come to the instructions where they will be enlightened.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h6><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Question the milling crowd that jostles in the public squares, ask anyone what he is doing, where he is going, what is he engaged in doing, etc.<\/span><\/strong><\/h6>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h6><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The      one will answer that a process on the issue of which depends his entire      fortune summons him to the bench to solicit, etc. <\/span><\/strong><\/h6>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h6><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Another      will say that he is going to negotiate an important matter, etc. <\/span><\/strong><\/h6>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h6><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Another      will say that he is going to negotiate his presence on the farm whither he      is heading with all speed. <\/span><\/strong><\/h6>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h6><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Another      again will say that he is going over in his mind some plans concerning      fortune, interests or ambition that will assure, etc. <\/span><\/strong><\/h6>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h6><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Perhaps      you will discover some who will be compelled to say that they are      hastening their steps towards the object of their infamous passions. <\/span><\/strong><\/h6>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h6><strong>So come, whoever you are, come assiduously to some instructions that must undeceive you on the score of many a fatal error, enlighten you on what are your only true interests. <\/strong><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Not a single one, no, not one will be able to reply that his mind is filled with the eternal truths, that these are the subject of his meditations and researches. <em>Desolatione desolata est terra<\/em>, etc. (Jer. 12:11). O blindness! O folly! However, the days pass, the years roll by, death has its day!<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><\/strong><\/h6>\n<h6><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Then illusion vanishes, but there is no longer time to make good the loss of a life entirely devoted in the arduous search for passing vanities that must be left behind. It is too late to amass an incorruptible treasure of glory and happiness for eternity.<\/span><\/strong><\/h6>\n<h6><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Come especially you poor of Jesus Christ and may God grant that I may make my voice heard in the four quarters of the world to reawaken so many foolish people from the fatal indolence that brings them to their doom.<\/span><\/strong><\/h6>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Notes for the first instruction in the Church of the Madeleine<br \/>\nO.W. XV n. 114<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eugene continues his sermon by presenting the indifference of the post-Revolution French to God and invites \u201cyou poor of Jesus Christ\u201d in the Madeleine to come to the instructions where they will be enlightened. 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