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“A father’s communication with his many children… that is one of the most agreeable occupations of my life” 1857
While I understand the why of Eugene’s letter to Bishop Buissas in Limoges I myself cannot help but remember my own personal experience as I listened to others speak the words of Eugene’s first Lenten Homily in the Church of the Madeleine in Aix.
“We must keep the Rule; our men must keep their feet on the ground, live in humility and not push themselves forward before people.” This is how we become “close to the people” as evidenced in Fernand Jetté’s “Commentary of the 1982 Oblate Constitutions and Rules” speaking about Constitution 8 and the “Oblate’s attitude towards the people with whom he works: an attitude of simplicity and love, of being close…” And on the next page offers the words of Bl. Joseph Gérard OMI who maintained that “…the answer is found on every page of the gospel: “one must love them, love them in spite of everything, love them always.”
It seems to me that the very by-product of God loving us is to fill us with the overwhelming desire to love as we are loved, pointing to the greatness of God’s dwelling within each of us, rather than setting us apart as being better than others.