{"id":2487,"date":"2014-02-07T05:00:33","date_gmt":"2014-02-07T03:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=2487"},"modified":"2014-02-06T05:50:51","modified_gmt":"2014-02-06T03:50:51","slug":"finances-cooperating-with-divine-providence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=2487","title":{"rendered":"FINANCES: COOPERATING WITH DIVINE PROVIDENCE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">From Rome, Eugene shares his concern about the finances of the Oblates and the obligation to provide for the needs of the members in future.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>I would wish you not to overlook a matter which preoccupies me constantly and that is that no one of our Congregation has any money and that the day when certain sources will dry up, it will be impossible to know how to feed and clothe so many people;<\/strong><\/h5>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>I know that we must count on divine Providence as Christian wisdom counsels us.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>That is why my purpose has always been to set aside a fund which could furnish the most pressing necessities of life, not of course with a thought of hoarding, but in order to supplement the endowments that all Congregations have in all countries of the world, for should it happen one day that we are reduced to relying only on Mass stipends, there will not be enough to keep our communities going. If we were to use this money for building, that would reduce us to zero. Think well on this, for those who give themselves to God in our Congregation have a right to have their needs looked after.<\/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><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">\u201cThe future starts today, not tomorrow.\u201d \u00a0 \u00a0Pope John Paul II<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Rome, Eugene shares his concern about the finances of the Oblates and the obligation to provide for the needs of the members in future. I would wish you not to overlook a matter which preoccupies me constantly and that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=2487\">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":[60],"class_list":["post-2487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters","tag-finance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2487","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=2487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2487\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}