{"id":2612,"date":"2014-07-30T05:00:41","date_gmt":"2014-07-30T03:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=2612"},"modified":"2014-07-15T02:44:30","modified_gmt":"2014-07-15T00:44:30","slug":"i-need-to-be-smuggled-in-among-good-virtuous-people-like-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=2612","title":{"rendered":"I NEED TO BE SMUGGLED IN AMONG GOOD VIRTUOUS PEOPLE LIKE YOU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exulting in the goodness and virtue of his Oblate sons, Eugene realizes his own lack of virtue in\u00a0comparison with theirs.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>What virtue do you wish that I perceive in myself? Alas! I have no illusions! \u2026 since this tree only produces flowers but no fruits. Believe, my children, that I have need of you all so I can try and be smuggled in with such good quality people.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Never tire then to urge all your people on to the most sublime virtues of our state. A total abnegation of self, a great humility which, joined to the zeal for the glory of God and the salvation of souls, to a great esteem and entire submissiveness towards our Rules, through which we ought to reach our goal, will truly make us achieve this.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Letter to Hippolyte Court\u00e8s, 31 May 1826. EO VII n 247<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 Billy Graham<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exulting in the goodness and virtue of his Oblate sons, Eugene realizes his own lack of virtue in\u00a0comparison with theirs. What virtue do you wish that I perceive in myself? Alas! I have no illusions! \u2026 since this tree only &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=2612\">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":[36,77,21],"class_list":["post-2612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters","tag-community","tag-holiness","tag-omi-rule"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2612","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=2612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2612\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}