Charles de foucauld quotes
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Biography of Charles de Foucauld
1. A child from a Christian home (1858 to 1873)
Charles was born in Strasbourg, France on September 15 1858 and was baptized two days after his birth.
“My God, we should all sing your mercies: Son of a holy mother, I learned from her to know you, to love you and to pray to you. Was not my first memory the prayer she made me recite morning and evening: ‘My God, bless father, mother, grandfather, grandmother, grandmother Foucauld and my little sister’?...”
But his mother, father and paternal grandmother all died in 1864. The grandfather took the two children, Charles (6 yrs) and Marie (3 yrs) into his home.
“I always admired the great intelligence of my grandfather whose infinite tenderness enveloped my childhood and youth with an atmosphere of love, whose warmth I still can feel.”
On April 28 1872, Charles made his first Holy Communion. He was confirmed the same day.
2. A young man in a world without God (1874 to 1876)
Charles was intelligent and studies were not difficult for him. He loved books, but read anything he could lay his hands on
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A lecture by Dr. Bonnie Thurston at Duquesne University, March 31, 2022
Universal Brother: The Life and Legacy of Charles de Foucauld (Festival of Friendship, 2020)
Translation:
Father,
I abandon myself into your hands;
do with me what you will.
Whatever you may do, I thank you:
I am ready for all, I accept all.
Let only your will be done in me,
and in all your creatures -
I wish no more than this, O Lord.
Into your hands I commend my soul:
I offer it to you with all the love of my heart,
for I love you, Lord, and so need to give myself,
to surrender myself into your hands without reserve,
and with boundless confidence,
for you are my Father.
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Charles de Foucauld
French explorer, geographer, linguist and Catholic saint (1858–1916)
Charles Eugène, vicomte de Foucauld de Pontbriand,[2][3][4][5] (15 September 1858 – 1 December 1916), commonly known as Charles de Foucauld, was a French soldier, explorer, geographer, ethnographer, Catholic priest and hermit who lived among the Tuareg people in the Sahara in Algeria. He was assassinated in 1916. His inspiration and writings led to the founding of a number of religious communities inspired by his example, such as the Little Brothers of Jesus.
Orphaned at the age of six, de Foucauld was brought up by his maternal grandfather, Colonel Beaudet de Morlet. He undertook officer training at the Saint-Cyr Military Academy. Upon graduating from the academy he opted to join the cavalry. Ordained in Viviers in 1901,[6] he decided to settle in the Algerian Sahara at Béni Abbès. His ambition was to form a new congregation, but nobody joined him. Taking the religious nameCharles of Jesus, he lived with the Berbers, adopting a new
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