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Also known as: Jean Eudes
Profile
Farmer's son who attended the Jesuit college at Caen at age 14. Joined the
Congregation of the Oratory of France. Studied at Paris and Aubervilliers.
Priest. Ministered to plague victims. Missionary and preacher, working
well over 100 missions. Worked against Jansenism. Established seminaries.
Founded the Congregation of Jesus and Mary Eudists on 25 March 1643 to
promote virtuous secular parochial clergy not bound by vows, but dedicated
to improving the clergy through seminaries and missions; due to opposition
by Oratorians and Jansenists, he never obtained Papal approval. Founded
the Sisters of Our Lady of Charity who worked for the welfare of penitent
women. Author of the liturgical devotion of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and
Mary.
Born: 14 November 1601 at Ri, Normandy, France
Died: 19 August 1680 at Caen, Normandy, France
Beatification: 25 April 1909
Canonized: 1925
Readings
Our wish, our object, our chief preoccupation must be to form Jesus in
ourselves, to make his spirit, his devotion, his affections, his desires,
and his disposition live and reign there. All our religious exercises
should be directed to this end. It is the work which God has given us to
do unceasingly.
Saint John Eudes
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Let us therefore give ourselves to God with a great desire to begin to
live thus, and beg Him to destroy in us the life of the world of sin, and
to establish His life within us.
Saint John Eudes
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Father of mercies and God of all consolation, You gave us the loving Heart
of your own beloved Son, because of the boundless love by which You have
loved us, which no tongue can describe. May we render You a love that is
perfect with hearts made one with His. Grant, we pray, that our hearts may
be brought to perfect unity: each heart with the other and all hearts with
the Heart of Jesus....and may the rightful yearnings of our hearts find
fulfillment through Him: Our Lord Jesus Christ, Your Son, who lives and
reigns with You in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, forever and
ever. Amen.
Collect from Saint John Eudes' Mass, Gaudeamus, 1668
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The Christian life is a continuation and completion of the life of Christ
in us. We should be so many Christs here on earth, continuing His life and
His works, laboring and suffering in a holy and divine manner in the
spirit of Jesus.
Saint John Eudes
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The air that we breathe, the bread that we eat, the heart which throbs in
our bosoms, are not more necessary for man that he may live as a human
being, than is prayer for the Christian that he may live as a Christian.
Saint John Eudes
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A Christian has a union with Jesus Christ more noble, more intimate and
more perfect than the members of a human body have with their head.
Saint John Eudes
source:
http://www.catholic-forum.com/saints/saintj21.htm
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