{"id":3811,"date":"2018-11-20T05:00:31","date_gmt":"2018-11-20T03:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=3811"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:06:46","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T03:06:46","slug":"200-years-ago-see-to-it-that-you-have-solidly-virtuous-priests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=3811","title":{"rendered":"200 YEARS AGO: NOTA BENE &#8211; SEE TO IT THAT YOU HAVE SOLIDLY VIRTUOUS PRIESTS"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<h5><strong>See to it that you have zealous, altruistic and solidly virtuous priests and soon you will bring back to the fold the people who have wandered away from their duties.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>1818 Rule, Part One, Chapter One. The ends of the Institute, \u00a73. Nota Bene.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Missions, 78 (1951) p. 15<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In 1818 he was writing this for his own Missionary priests. In 1826 this text was modified into what today we know as the \u201cPreface\u201d addressed to all the members of the Mazenodian family. If we want to make a difference to the 21st century, the same principles still apply: people must be able to recognize in the quality of our lives that which we preach to others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>See to it that you have zealous, altruistic and solidly virtuous priests and soon you will bring back to the fold the people who have wandered away from their duties. 1818 Rule, Part One, Chapter One. The ends of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=3811\">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-3811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3811","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=3811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}