{"id":3317,"date":"2017-01-26T05:00:42","date_gmt":"2017-01-26T03:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=3317"},"modified":"2017-01-26T00:49:34","modified_gmt":"2017-01-25T22:49:34","slug":"treat-them-with-confidence-and-mildness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=3317","title":{"rendered":"TREAT THEM WITH CONFIDENCE AND MILDNESS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As Henri Tempier was to officially visit the community in Laus in Eugene\u2019s name, he is given advice on dealing with two Oblates who were sensitive and had issues. The first was about Alexandre Dupuy, who was to leave the Oblates a year later. Cf. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omiworld.org\/en\/dictionary\/historical-dictionary_vol-1_d\/709\/dupuy-alexandre-1798-1880\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.omiworld.org\/en\/dictionary\/historical-dictionary_vol-1_d\/709\/dupuy-alexandre-1798-1880<\/a>\/<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h5><strong>You must treat Fr. Dupuy with confidence and mildness in order to dissipate the unjust prejudices that he has conceived<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>(YENVEUX, VII, 97). Quoted as footnote in EO VII n 333<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h5><strong>As for the local superior at Laus, give him advice as coming from yourself, mildly and in a conversational manner, to be less susceptible than he is; it seems evident that this is a fault of his which he has yet to acknowledge.<\/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<p>The second one who needed to be handled with confidence and mildness was Andre Sumien (cf. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omiworld.org\/en\/dictionary\/historical-dictionary_vol-1_s\/991\/sumien-andr-marc\/)\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.omiworld.org\/en\/dictionary\/historical-dictionary_vol-1_s\/991\/sumien-andr-marc\/)<\/a>. He was a difficult person and he and Eugene had had disagreements in the past about his behavior. Eugene\u2019s gesture was meant to reassure him.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h5><strong>I will not wait for your visit to name Fr. Sumien as second counsellor. I am quite agreeable to have this mark of confidence come to him directly from me so as to prove that I have restored him to my good grace, which he was convinced he had lost.<\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Henri Tempier was to officially visit the community in Laus in Eugene\u2019s name, he is given advice on dealing with two Oblates who were sensitive and had issues. The first was about Alexandre Dupuy, who was to leave the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=3317\">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-3317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3317","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=3317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}