{"id":3522,"date":"2017-10-13T05:00:12","date_gmt":"2017-10-13T03:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=3522"},"modified":"2017-10-12T23:23:14","modified_gmt":"2017-10-12T21:23:14","slug":"i-am-your-father-and-how-much-a-father","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=3522","title":{"rendered":"I AM YOUR FATHER AND HOW MUCH A FATHER!"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<h5><strong>You know them, I am your father and how much a father! So, I cannot be satisfied to be treated simply as a superior.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>From the day that Eugene had founded the Oblates, he had had a sense of spiritual paternity. As he expresses this to the scholastics, with whom he had spent a very special few weeks in Billens, we see the spiritual aspect of this paternal love. It is not directed towards persons, but to God and the service of the Church.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h5><strong>If you could place an ear to the keyhole when I am talking about you, or read what I write about you, you would understand what you mean to me, but you do know it and it is in the presence of God that you repay me my love. <\/strong><\/h5>\n<h5><strong>Your virtues, your devotion to God\u2019s glory and to the service of the Church will be my glory and my consolation in the midst of the assembly of the saints.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<h5><strong>As I wait for that, it brings a secret joy to my heart and I bless you and ask you for yet more prayers and for you to keep me ever in mind.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<h5><strong>Goodbye again my dear children<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Letter to Jean Baptiste Mille and the students in Billens, 24 January 1831, EO VIII n 383<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know them, I am your father and how much a father! So, I cannot be satisfied to be treated simply as a superior. From the day that Eugene had founded the Oblates, he had had a sense of spiritual &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=3522\">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-3522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3522","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=3522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3522\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}