{"id":213,"date":"2010-09-01T05:00:26","date_gmt":"2010-09-01T03:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=213"},"modified":"2010-08-31T19:09:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-31T17:09:00","slug":"it-is-my-friends-i-love-too-much","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=213","title":{"rendered":"IT IS MY FRIENDS I LOVE TOO MUCH"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Continuing his reflections on death and on the attachments which would prevent him from being \u201call for God\u201d in the face of death, he reflects on his relationships. His conclusion touches on what was to be a part of his way of being throughout his life: his need for close friendship.<br \/>\nFrom his experience of the importance of friendship, it is easy to appreciate why his relationship with Jesus was often understood in terms of friendship. Very much a man of his time, he also reflects the widespread 19<sup>th<\/sup> century ecclesial attitude to the role of women and the \u201cdangers\u201d they could pose to a priestly vocation!!!<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h5><strong>After a careful self-examination I do not seem to discover in myself these kinds of attachments. However, I think I must keep an eye on my over-loving, over-tender, over-affectionate, over-sensitive heart, not that it is at all set on illicit objects, I keep if anything too much distance from persons of the opposite sex to make major reflections necessary on my strictly indispensable, cool and serious relations with them; but it is my friends I love too much, it is to friendship, tenderness to which I attach, it seems to me, too much value.<\/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>Continuing his reflections on death and on the attachments which would prevent him from being \u201call for God\u201d in the face of death, he reflects on his relationships. His conclusion touches on what was to be a part of his &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=213\">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":[34],"class_list":["post-213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-retreat-notes","tag-friendship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213","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=213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}