Gaby Setiabudi
Ms. Stronks
ELA 8
March 15, 2016
“A Heart on Fire” Chapter Four and Five Summary
In the booklet, “A Heart on Fire” by Steve Marshall which focuses on the beginning through the end of Saint John Eudes life and his journeys. Saint John Eudes is a missionary who had devoted his life to God the moment he realized it was his calling as a young child. He had not only become a missionary to devote his life, but to help others and preach the good news of the Lord. From pages fourteen through twenty-one, on chapters four and five tells us, the readers, about some of the good works he had done in the name of the Lord. Firstly, the first page describes the scene in the year 1629 in Normandy when a plague had broken out in his native diocese. Ignoring the risks and the potential death he could’ve encountered, Saint John Eudes continued on to aid and assist the people contaminated from the plague while preaching about the good news. As the plague progressed to Caen in 1631, he went on to help aid and cure the sick, meeting two other people who were just as devoted to Christ even when they were not priests. One was Gaston de Renty, a father of four with the same mission as Eudes, to aid the sick. The other was Madame Laurence de Budos, a yound abbess who brought meals to the sick for everyone wanting to help in a way. Soon, after the plague had ended he went on working as an Oratorical, with others he went on to preach children, adults, and lapsed Catholics to just go to confession, receive the Eucharist, and restart their relationship with God with a stronger faith. Throughout Saint John Eudes' lifetime, he had not only spent fourty-five years of his life working in this apostolate, but preaching over a hundred missions with thousands of people to watch and hear him spread the word of God.
Ms. Stronks
ELA 8
March 15, 2016
“A Heart on Fire” Chapter Four and Five Summary
In the booklet, “A Heart on Fire” by Steve Marshall which focuses on the beginning through the end of Saint John Eudes life and his journeys. Saint John Eudes is a missionary who had devoted his life to God the moment he realized it was his calling as a young child. He had not only become a missionary to devote his life, but to help others and preach the good news of the Lord. From pages fourteen through twenty-one, on chapters four and five tells us, the readers, about some of the good works he had done in the name of the Lord. Firstly, the first page describes the scene in the year 1629 in Normandy when a plague had broken out in his native diocese. Ignoring the risks and the potential death he could’ve encountered, Saint John Eudes continued on to aid and assist the people contaminated from the plague while preaching about the good news. As the plague progressed to Caen in 1631, he went on to help aid and cure the sick, meeting two other people who were just as devoted to Christ even when they were not priests. One was Gaston de Renty, a father of four with the same mission as Eudes, to aid the sick. The other was Madame Laurence de Budos, a yound abbess who brought meals to the sick for everyone wanting to help in a way. Soon, after the plague had ended he went on working as an Oratorical, with others he went on to preach children, adults, and lapsed Catholics to just go to confession, receive the Eucharist, and restart their relationship with God with a stronger faith. Throughout Saint John Eudes' lifetime, he had not only spent fourty-five years of his life working in this apostolate, but preaching over a hundred missions with thousands of people to watch and hear him spread the word of God.