{"id":3694,"date":"2018-05-16T05:00:27","date_gmt":"2018-05-16T03:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=3694"},"modified":"2018-05-13T17:56:00","modified_gmt":"2018-05-13T15:56:00","slug":"our-actions-and-services-have-value-only-to-the-extent-that-we-do-what-the-master-asks-of-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=3694","title":{"rendered":"OUR ACTIONS AND SERVICES HAVE VALUE ONLY TO THE EXTENT THAT WE DO WHAT THE MASTER ASKS OF US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"4Textofwritings\">It is only when we see our desires in the light of the Word and will of God, that we will have peace and bear fruit.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h5 class=\"4Textofwritings\"><strong>Unfortunately, only too often, and I shudder as I say it, we find great sinners amongst the preachers, confessors and all those ministers who are slaves to their whims. The saints are found amongst the obedient, modestly accepting their missions in a quite different way. In God\u2019s name, ponder on these reflections.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<h5 class=\"4Textofwritings\"><strong>Whoever we are, we are unprofitable servants in Our Father\u2019s house. Our actions and the services we render have value only to the extent that we do what the Master asks of us.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<h5 class=\"4Textofwritings\"><strong>It will go hard with anyone who turns up his nose at the least important tasks because he believes himself suitable for more lofty ones. His reckoning will be swift. Not only that, before long he will find himself with a new master: Lucifer for Jesus Christ. Believe me. I speak from experience. I could cite more examples than I can count on the fingers of my hand.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"4Textofwritings\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>To Jean Baptiste Mille, 30 May 1832, EO VIII n 423<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is only when we see our desires in the light of the Word and will of God, that we will have peace and bear fruit. Unfortunately, only too often, and I shudder as I say it, we find great &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=3694\">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-3694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3694","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=3694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3694\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}