{"id":2451,"date":"2013-12-12T05:00:40","date_gmt":"2013-12-12T03:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=2451"},"modified":"2013-12-12T03:27:37","modified_gmt":"2013-12-12T01:27:37","slug":"i-am-only-happy-beside-those-whom-the-good-god-has-given-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=2451","title":{"rendered":"I AM ONLY HAPPY BESIDE THOSE WHOM THE GOOD GOD HAS GIVEN ME"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<h5><strong>On leaving the house of the Archpriest Adinolfi, I said a heartfelt Te Deum laudamus and entered the church where lies the body of Saint Joseph Calasanz, there to thank our Lord and pray him to finish his work.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Despite the Pope having expressed his personal opinion, there was still a formal process to go through before the Oblates would be formally approved. Much work and prayer awaited Eugene in the coming weeks, and he would need the prayers and unity of his brother Oblates to see the project to its completion<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Thus our cause is on its way, but if it has taken a great step initially, this is not to say that it is finished. Before God and as far as we are concerned, it is quite as if the Head of the Church has spoken, his will is known to us, but for it to have effect we have a procedure to follow and many formalities to perform which will take much time.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Here I am then kept far from you and from our whole dear family. Believe me, this is a great sacrifice I make; but if ever it had to be, it is certainly at this time; yet if I make such a remark, it is not to complain about it, nor, God forbid, to murmur; but it is to let you know that I am only happy beside those whom the good God has given me.<\/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>\u201cA dream doesn&#8217;t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.\u201d \u00a0 \u00a0Colin Powell<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On leaving the house of the Archpriest Adinolfi, I said a heartfelt Te Deum laudamus and entered the church where lies the body of Saint Joseph Calasanz, there to thank our Lord and pray him to finish his work. Despite &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=2451\">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":[97,36],"class_list":["post-2451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters","tag-approbation-of-congregation","tag-community"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2451","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=2451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}