{"id":2614,"date":"2014-08-01T05:00:10","date_gmt":"2014-08-01T03:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=2614"},"modified":"2014-07-15T02:58:25","modified_gmt":"2014-07-15T00:58:25","slug":"spiritual-growth-needs-time-and-missionary-patience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=2614","title":{"rendered":"SPIRITUAL GROWTH NEEDS TIME AND MISSIONARY PATIENCE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eugene\u2019s return to France had been lengthened by negotiations for a possible amalgamation with two groups of religious who were doing the same missionary work as the Oblates. The first group was that of the Oblates of the Virgin Mary, with whom he had met in Turin on his way to Rome (cf<a href=\"%20https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=2254\"> https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=2254<\/a>). Now on his return journey he informed Tempier that the missionary methods of this group were not compatible with those of the Oblates.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>I think no more of those whom I saw on my way down. The head is a man of the greatest merit but he is aged and weakened, and led by the nose by one of his three or four companions. Their method, to which they cling obstinately, could not be employed by us; they only give retreats of eight days and they do in those eight days what we would have difficulty doing in thirty. For the rest, the one idea held by Fathers who are esteemed in these parts and certainly one that is encouraging for us, although it must upset poor M. Dalga, is that eight days suffice to finish the task. They get a lot done when they prolong it up to fifteen and that is the method of all &#8211; Jesuits, Passionists, Lazarists, and religious of all orders.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Letter to Henri Tempier, 24 May 1826, EO VII n 242<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 M. Scott Peck<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eugene\u2019s return to France had been lengthened by negotiations for a possible amalgamation with two groups of religious who were doing the same missionary work as the Oblates. The first group was that of the Oblates of the Virgin Mary, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=2614\">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":[32],"class_list":["post-2614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters","tag-mission-preaching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2614","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=2614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}