{"id":194,"date":"2010-08-26T05:00:42","date_gmt":"2010-08-26T03:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=194"},"modified":"2010-08-14T21:30:25","modified_gmt":"2010-08-14T19:30:25","slug":"i-had-looked-for-happiness-outside-of-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=194","title":{"rendered":"I HAD LOOKED FOR HAPPINESS OUTSIDE OF GOD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eugene wrote about his Good Friday experience seven years after the event. During this time he had studied in the seminary, been ordained and had done 3 years of ministry. The memory of the event was still so powerful for him \u2013 and he expresses the heart of the experience in the terminology of Augustine.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h5><strong> Why say more? Could I ever express what I experienced then? Just the memory of it fills my heart with a sweet satisfaction. So I had looked for happiness outside of God, and outside him I found but affliction and chagrin.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Retreat Journal, December 1814, O.W. XV n.130<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eugene wrote about his Good Friday experience seven years after the event. During this time he had studied in the seminary, been ordained and had done 3 years of ministry. The memory of the event was still so powerful for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=194\">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":[40],"tags":[7,44],"class_list":["post-194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-retreat-notes","tag-conversion","tag-good-friday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194","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=194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}