{"id":3314,"date":"2017-01-24T05:00:43","date_gmt":"2017-01-24T03:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=3314"},"modified":"2017-01-23T00:22:02","modified_gmt":"2017-01-22T22:22:02","slug":"confront-him-with-his-duties-kindly-but-firmly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=3314","title":{"rendered":"CONFRONT HIM WITH HIS DUTIES KINDLY BUT FIRMLY."},"content":{"rendered":"<table width=\"720\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"243\">Continuing his advice to Henri Tempier, as he visits each Oblate in Eugene\u2019s name, he deals with two difficult persons. In each case, he looks for the good and the possibilities of growth in each one &#8211; and the necessary correction to achieve the growth.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h5><strong>I cannot go too far in recommending Bro. Ricard to you; he is a good child, but a weakling. I do not think he studies at all and you know how ignorant he is. Confront him with his duties kindly but firmly.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Again, show him that he is loved, but also make sure that he observes the Rule:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h5><strong>If you can persuade this odd fellow, Biallez, to go and spend some time at the novitiate in order to prepare himself for profession, I think we could still get some good out of him. Do not treat him during your visit quite as a stranger. This is rather an affected attitude that he maintains\u2026. Send me word as to what keeps him going, tell him on my behalf that we love him as a good brother, but that it is impossible for me not to expect him to be diligent in observing the Rule.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Letter to Henri Tempier, 16 July 1829, EO VII n 333<\/em><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Continuing his advice to Henri Tempier, as he visits each Oblate in Eugene\u2019s name, he deals with two difficult persons. In each case, he looks for the good and the possibilities of growth in each one &#8211; and the necessary &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=3314\">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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3314","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=3314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}