{"id":164,"date":"2010-08-04T05:07:36","date_gmt":"2010-08-04T03:07:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=164"},"modified":"2010-10-31T22:02:52","modified_gmt":"2010-10-31T20:02:52","slug":"up-to-now-and-for-a-long-time-i-am-everyone%e2%80%99s-servant-and-at-the-disposition-of-the-first-comer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=164","title":{"rendered":"UP TO NOW AND FOR A LONG TIME I AM EVERYONE\u2019S SERVANT AND AT THE DISPOSITION OF THE FIRST-COMER"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">After Napoleon\u2019s departure, things were changing in France and the Pope had asked for mission preaching to be used in order to restore the state of the ravaged French Church. Eugene\u2019s friend Charles Forbin Janson responded immediately by starting a group of mission preachers, to which he invited Eugene to join. Eugene responded:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h5><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cFor myself, I am not thinking of it just now\u2026 I foresee that in the near future my affairs are going to be disrupted. My father and uncles are on the point of returning. On their arrival they will badly need my help. And then I will have to find them places.<\/span><\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<h5><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Afterwards I shall be free, if indeed that is possible; for up to now and for a long time I am everyone\u2019s servant and at the disposition of whoever approaches me first. This is apparently God\u2019s will.<\/span><\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Letter to Father Forbin Janson, 12 September 1814, in O.W. XV n. 128.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The seed of a future direction seems to have been planted in Eugene\u2019s mind &#8211; but for the moment he finds the will of God in his present occupations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After Napoleon\u2019s departure, things were changing in France and the Pope had asked for mission preaching to be used in order to restore the state of the ravaged French Church. Eugene\u2019s friend Charles Forbin Janson responded immediately by starting a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=164\">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,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[32,31],"class_list":["post-164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters","tag-mission-preaching","tag-will-of-god"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164","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=164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}