{"id":130,"date":"2010-07-16T06:00:38","date_gmt":"2010-07-16T04:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=130"},"modified":"2010-10-13T22:01:17","modified_gmt":"2010-10-13T20:01:17","slug":"youth-to-form-christians-worthy-of-bearing-this-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=130","title":{"rendered":"YOUTH: TO FORM CHRISTIANS WORTHY OF BEARING THIS NAME"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Eugene expressed his guiding ideals for working with the youth in a letter to his friend Father Forbin Janson. What is clear is that Eugene wanted these young men to become yeast in Aix. Through their formation they could become leaven in the \u201cdough\u201d of all the young people of Aix that they came into contact with.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h5><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">You know what my intention is in setting up this association:<\/span><\/strong><\/h5>\n<h5 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">it is to form Christians worthy of bearing this name,<\/span><\/strong><\/h5>\n<h5 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">to give instruction to those young people who, without my help would never have got beyond the basic text of the catechism,<\/span><\/strong><\/h5>\n<h5 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">to separate them from dangerous company, and<\/span><\/strong><\/h5>\n<h5 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">hold them by the attraction of amusements suitable to their age.<\/span><\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em><span style=\"color: #000000;\">To Forbin-Janson, June 1814 in O.W. XV n 125<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">It was because Eugene was clear on his goals and his methods that the youth congregation was a success and bore fruit.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eugene expressed his guiding ideals for working with the youth in a letter to his friend Father Forbin Janson. What is clear is that Eugene wanted these young men to become yeast in Aix. Through their formation they could become &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=130\">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":[39],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters","tag-youth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130","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=130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}