{"id":2483,"date":"2014-02-04T06:48:12","date_gmt":"2014-02-04T04:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=2483"},"modified":"2014-02-04T06:48:12","modified_gmt":"2014-02-04T04:48:12","slug":"events-which-bear-the-sign-of-a-special-protection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=2483","title":{"rendered":"EVENTS WHICH BEAR THE SIGN OF A SPECIAL PROTECTION"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">When I reflect on how our business is going forward, I am filled with admiration for the goodness of God and feel carried away with feelings of great gratitude. Up to this moment, it all bears the mark of a special protection.<\/span><\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Once again, the doors had successfully opened for Eugene, and the Pope had agreed to shorten the seemingly-interminable process for approbation<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Who could have disposed the Head of the Church to decide to make a unique exception for us? Who inspires him to perceive that all I propose to him is good? Again yesterday, to whom are we indebted for his having consented without the slightest difficulty to dispense me from the interminable examination of eight Cardinals, whom it would perhaps have been difficult to induce to abandon for our sake a system adopted for all the others, and authorize Cardinal Pacca to hold in his house a small congregation of three Cardinals, that is to say, to take on another Cardinal who, with Cardinal Pedicini and the secretary Archbishop of the Congregation, will give their judgment on the Oblate Rule and report on it directly to the Holy Father?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Eugene tried to live in a spirit of being as closely united to God as possible, and he thus recognized the hand of God in all these events<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>It is God, master of all hearts, moved by the powerful mediation of his Son, Our Lord.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Thus the matter now stands, dear friend, whence you will understand how much it has been simplified. Now it is up to Cardinal Pacca to convoke at his house, whenever he wishes, his little congregation. Although he is rather slow, it cannot drag on much longer.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Letter to Henri Tempier, 20 January 1826, EO VII n 219<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.&#8221; \u00a0 \u00a0 Corrie Ten Boom<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I reflect on how our business is going forward, I am filled with admiration for the goodness of God and feel carried away with feelings of great gratitude. Up to this moment, it all bears the mark of a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=2483\">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],"class_list":["post-2483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters","tag-approbation-of-congregation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2483","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=2483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}