{"id":3045,"date":"2016-03-02T05:00:58","date_gmt":"2016-03-02T03:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=3045"},"modified":"2016-03-01T16:39:35","modified_gmt":"2016-03-01T14:39:35","slug":"our-founding-vision-the-missionary-fragile-vessel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=3045","title":{"rendered":"OUR FOUNDING VISION: THE MISSIONARY AS A FRAGILE VESSEL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The missionaries were fragile persons and not all was rose-colored in their life.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Those who have been accepted into the Society may be sent away only for serious reasons on the request of the superior plus a two-thirds majority voted assent of the other Missionaries.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Request to the Capitular Vicars of Aix, 25 January 1816, O.W. XIII n.2<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The expulsion of the 25 year-old Auguste Icard put this prescription into practice just a few weeks after it had been written. In the Register of Admissions to the Novitiate, Eugene made a note next to Icard\u2019s entry that \u201c<em><strong>reasons of major importance<\/strong><\/em>\u201d obliged him \u201c<em><strong>shortly after to notify Icard he was no longer to consider himself a member of our Society<\/strong><\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In 1823, Emmanuel Maunier and S\u00e9bastien Deblieu also left the Missionaries to be diocesan priests elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>Three of Eugene\u2019s original five first companions did not persevere! Indeed the disciple is a fragile vessel.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/FOUNDING-VISION.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3026\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3026 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/FOUNDING-VISION-300x225.png\" alt=\"FOUNDING VISION\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/FOUNDING-VISION-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/FOUNDING-VISION.png 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are so many fragile things, after all. People break so easily, and so do dreams and hearts.&#8221; \u00a0\u00a0Neil Gaiman<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The missionaries were fragile persons and not all was rose-colored in their life. Those who have been accepted into the Society may be sent away only for serious reasons on the request of the superior plus a two-thirds majority voted &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=3045\">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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3045","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=3045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3045\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}