{"id":2326,"date":"2013-10-31T05:00:05","date_gmt":"2013-10-31T03:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=2326"},"modified":"2013-10-28T13:38:30","modified_gmt":"2013-10-28T11:38:30","slug":"we-were-inconsiderate-in-regard-to-our-mother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=2326","title":{"rendered":"WE WERE INCONSIDERATE IN REGARD TO OUR MOTHER"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Oblates of the Immaculate Mary. But this is a passport to heaven! How have we not thought of it sooner?<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The entries of the past days have taken a look back at the place of Mary in the life of Eugene and in his ministry to help us to undefstand why he as able to exclaim, \u201cHow have we not thought of it sooner?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Having made the request for a change of name in the petition he wrote to the Pope, he reflected on his lack of enthusiasm for the name \u201cOblates of Saint Charles\u201d:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>The Oblates of Mary! This name satisfies the heart and the ear. I must admit to you that I was quite surprised, when it was decided to take the name I had thought should be left aside, at being so unmoved, at feeling so little pleasure, I would almost say a kind of repugnance, at bearing the name of a saint who is my particular protector, for whom I have so much devotion.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>And now I see the reason; we were inconsiderate in regard to our Mother, our Queen, she who protects us and who must obtain for us all graces whereof her divine Son has made her the dispenser.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Letter to Henri Tempier, 22 December 1825, EO VI n 213<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen they entered the city they went to the upper room where they were staying, Peter and John and James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James son of Alphaeus, Simon the Zealot, and Judas son of James. All these devoted themselves with one accord to prayer, together with some women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and his brothers.\u201d \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Acts 1:13-14<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oblates of the Immaculate Mary. But this is a passport to heaven! How have we not thought of it sooner? The entries of the past days have taken a look back at the place of Mary in the life of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=2326\">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":[97,37],"class_list":["post-2326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters","tag-approbation-of-congregation","tag-mary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2326","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=2326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}