?Living in the Spirit?s Fire?
St. Eugene
Copies of ?Living in the Spirit?s Fire?, the recent biography of Saint Eugene de Mazenod, written by Alfred A. Hubenig OMI with Rene Motte OMI, are now available at Oblate Retreat Centre, Wistaston Hall, Crewe.
It would be a pity if such an interesting and highly readable book was to remain on Oblate bookshelves gathering dust. It deserves to be made available through parish libraries, offices or resource centres to parishioners and others who may wish to read it.
Perhaps the quotation from Pope Paul VI, printed on the back cover, reflects best the importance and attractiveness of this biography.
?What do we want to know of a saint??
?we prefer to know his human side rather than his mystical or ascetical traits. We want to discover in saints whatever brings them closer to us rather than what sets them apart. We want to put them at our level as human beings, plunged like us into circumstances that can at times be far from edifying, sharing our toil and perhaps, too, our misery. That way, we stand a chance of having confidence in them ? we can share with them the common and burdensome state of our earthly experience.?