{"id":3782,"date":"2018-10-17T05:00:13","date_gmt":"2018-10-17T03:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=3782"},"modified":"2018-10-16T03:46:11","modified_gmt":"2018-10-16T01:46:11","slug":"200-years-ago-a-prayer-for-realism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=3782","title":{"rendered":"200 YEARS AGO: A PRAYER FOR REALISM"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<h5><strong>On the eve of engaging myself in a great commitment for the rest of my days, I enter into myself\u2026<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Thus begins Eugene\u2019s journal for the day prayer in preparation for the oblation for life he was to make as a religious with vows.<\/p>\n<p>As he enters into self-evaluation he touches on the constant theme of his retreats during these past years: his lack of focus as a result of being over-extended in his commitments and activities.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h5><strong>On the eve of engaging myself in a great commitment for the rest of my days, I enter into myself to humble myself before God for the small progress I have made in the ways of perfection, bitterly to lament the difficulty I am experiencing in getting out of the habitual state of being lukewarm that I have fallen into since my duty has obliged me to focus my attention on others and I have been almost entirely forgetful of myself.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Day\u2019s Retreat, during th community retreat, 30 October 1818,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>EO XV n. 148<\/em><\/p>\n<p>He finds himself lukewarm in the light of the fiery ideals expressed at the previous highpoints of his life \u2013 always linked with the grace to want to be totally centered on God.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the eve of engaging myself in a great commitment for the rest of my days, I enter into myself\u2026 Thus begins Eugene\u2019s journal for the day prayer in preparation for the oblation for life he was to make as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=3782\">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-3782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3782","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=3782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3782\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}