{"id":122,"date":"2010-07-13T06:00:24","date_gmt":"2010-07-13T04:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=122"},"modified":"2010-10-09T21:36:50","modified_gmt":"2010-10-09T19:36:50","slug":"youth-the-evil-is-at-its-height-and-we-are-moving-forward-swiftly-towards-total-collapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=122","title":{"rendered":"YOUTH: THE EVIL IS AT ITS HEIGHT AND WE ARE MOVING FORWARD SWIFTLY TOWARDS TOTAL COLLAPSE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Having outlined the evil situation in which the young people find themselves, Eugene sees the urgency of responding to Napoleon\u2019s attacks, despite the personal danger this will entail from him from Napoleon\u2019s police. The central thrust of his ministry for the next few years will be to establish a support system to attempt to preserve <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">the youth of Aix <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">fr<\/span>om the evils with which\u00a0 they are threatened.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h5 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The evil is at its height and we are moving forward swiftly towards total collapse if God does not come very quickly to our help\u2026<\/span><\/strong><\/h5>\n<h5 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Must one, a sad spectator of this deluge of evil, be content to bemoan it in silence without supplying any remedy? Certainly not. And should I suffer persecution or be destined to fail in the holy enterprise of raising a barrier against this torrent of iniquity at least I shall not have to reproach myself with not having made the attempt.<\/span><\/strong><\/h5>\n<h5 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">What means are to be employed to attain success in so great an enterprise? None other than those employed by the seducer himself. He felt he could succeed in corrupting France only by perverting the youth, it is towards them that he directs all his efforts.<\/span><\/strong><\/h5>\n<h5 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Very well, it will also be upon the youth that I will work; I will strive, I will make the attempt to preserve them from the evils with which they are menaced, that they suffer already in part, inspiring in them early-on the love of truth, respect for religion, taste for piety, horror of vice.<\/span><\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>Diary of the Aix Christian Youth Congregation<\/em>, 25 April\u00a01813,\u00a0O.W. XVI, <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having outlined the evil situation in which the young people find themselves, Eugene sees the urgency of responding to Napoleon\u2019s attacks, despite the personal danger this will entail from him from Napoleon\u2019s police. The central thrust of his ministry for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=122\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diary","tag-youth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}