{"id":4061,"date":"2019-09-19T05:00:15","date_gmt":"2019-09-19T03:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=4061"},"modified":"2019-09-11T03:46:31","modified_gmt":"2019-09-11T01:46:31","slug":"at-the-service-of-this-sanctuary-so-as-to-give-a-better-direction-to-peoples-devotion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=4061","title":{"rendered":"AT THE SERVICE OF THIS SANCTUARY SO AS TO GIVE A BETTER DIRECTION TO PEOPLE\u2019S DEVOTION"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The missionaries in charge of the Shrine of Our Lady of Osier are reminded:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h5><strong>As to matters outside the house, remember that Providence has put you at the service of this sanctuary so as to give a better direction to people\u2019s devotion. I pray that their devotion to the Holy Virgin will bring them to conversion through your ministry.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Letter to Bruno Guigues, 3 September 1835, EO VIII n 541<\/em><\/p>\n<p>People came to the shrine because of their devotion to Mary &#8211; the mission of the Oblates as co-operators of the Savior, was to direct that devotion to the Savior and not to stop at Mary. The aim of the sanctuary was not directed at Mary, but to her example and intercession that led people to conversion to her Son.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The missionaries in charge of the Shrine of Our Lady of Osier are reminded: As to matters outside the house, remember that Providence has put you at the service of this sanctuary so as to give a better direction to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=4061\">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-4061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4061","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=4061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4061\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}