{"id":4095,"date":"2019-10-25T05:00:53","date_gmt":"2019-10-25T03:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=4095"},"modified":"2019-10-03T21:38:24","modified_gmt":"2019-10-03T19:38:24","slug":"dont-extend-yourself-beyond-your-capacity-and-dont-lose-your-peace-of-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=4095","title":{"rendered":"DON\u2019T EXTEND YOURSELF BEYOND YOUR CAPACITY AND DON\u2019T LOSE YOUR PEACE OF MIND"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another example of Eugene\u2019s predicament in the personnel crisis. Father Guigues, at Osier, was desperately needing more Oblates. Eugene\u2019s response:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h5><strong>I\u2019m only too aware of the picture you paint for me of your situation but I can only repeat that God knows it better than we do and we must abide by his will.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<h5><strong>Make your plans in function of the means available, don\u2019t extend yourself beyond your capacity and don\u2019t lose your peace of mind; that\u2019s where wisdom lies.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Letter to Bruno Guigues, 2 October 1836, EO VIII n 592<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Eugene\u2019s advice continues to apply today in every situation that we face as a Mazenodian Family &#8211; that is where wisdom lies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another example of Eugene\u2019s predicament in the personnel crisis. Father Guigues, at Osier, was desperately needing more Oblates. Eugene\u2019s response: I\u2019m only too aware of the picture you paint for me of your situation but I can only repeat that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=4095\">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-4095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4095","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=4095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4095\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}