{"id":2742,"date":"2015-01-15T05:00:57","date_gmt":"2015-01-15T03:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=2742"},"modified":"2015-01-13T15:08:42","modified_gmt":"2015-01-13T13:08:42","slug":"a-reprimand-and-a-hug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=2742","title":{"rendered":"A REPRIMAND AND A HUG"},"content":{"rendered":"<table width=\"1103\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"368\">Having corrected Fr Court\u00e8s above, the conclusion of this letter is typical of Eugene\u2019s style. When he had to reprimand an Oblate, he would do it directly and did not pull his punches. Then he would be aware of a possible hurt that he could have caused the person by his directness, and immediately tried to soften the blow with his personal and fatherly affection.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>I am sure, dear friend, you do not get annoyed when I speak to you with frankness and simplicity. These are not reproaches that I make to you, but amicable remarks which for a right mind will suffice to rectify all things promptly and put everything in order.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Adieu, my very dear Fr. Court\u00e8s, I embrace you with all my heart and love you likewise.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Letter to Hippolyte Court\u00e8s, 26 September 1827, EO VII n 282<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Similarly, Fr. Honorat had made a journey to Aix without telling Eugene, and had succeeded in disturbing the arrangements for a parish mission in the process. Eugene\u2019s reaction was direct, but humane.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>When it is a question of saving souls, the matter is delicate, and before taking a decision, we must weigh and reweigh the motives that must influence us. To tell the truth, for thanks be to God, and I willingly give you this credit, you are capable of hearing the truth whole and entire without anyone having to resort to the mollycoddling that insults a soul like yours. Oh well! my formal intention, one I had even expressed in writing to Fr. Court\u00e8s, was that you do not come to Aix. \u2026Now the thing is done, let us speak no more of it\u2026 Adieu! I embrace you with all my heart.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Letter to Jean Baptiste Honorat, 6 October 1827, EO VII n 286<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou cannot reprimand a person without love and charity. (Just like) you cannot perform surgery without anaesthesia: you cannot, because the patient will die from the pain.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 Pope Francis<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having corrected Fr Court\u00e8s above, the conclusion of this letter is typical of Eugene\u2019s style. When he had to reprimand an Oblate, he would do it directly and did not pull his punches. Then he would be aware of a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=2742\">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":[52,71],"class_list":["post-2742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters","tag-fatherhood","tag-superior"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2742","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=2742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2742\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}