{"id":4178,"date":"2020-02-12T05:00:45","date_gmt":"2020-02-12T04:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=4178"},"modified":"2020-02-01T11:57:31","modified_gmt":"2020-02-01T10:57:31","slug":"a-half-hour-oraison-i-think-these-were-precious-moments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=4178","title":{"rendered":"A HALF-HOUR ORAISON. I THINK THESE WERE PRECIOUS MOMENTS"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<h5><strong>Since divine Providence has called on us to restore to honour the devotion to Our Lady of Lumi\u00e8res, we must fulfil our mission in its entirety\u2026<\/strong><\/h5>\n<h5><strong>As today is the beautiful feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, I did not want to let it pass without consecrating to him the house, our foundation and the community that is to serve the shrine and exercise the holy ministry of missions in the diocese\u2026<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>He narrated how they exposed the Blessed Sacrament and then did their daily oraison prayer in communion with all the Oblates throughout France.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h5><strong>Then we stayed on for a half-hour oraison. I think these were precious moments. We may have been quite alone in the presence of our divine Master, but we were prostrate at his feet to place our persons, our society, its ministry, its works, the house we had just taken possession of, under his powerful protection; we asked that he alone rule over us, that he be our father, light, help, counsel, support, our all. We were calling down his blessings on ourselves and our Congregation that we were representing with all the more fervour because we were few in number.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>\u00a0Eugene de Mazenod\u2019s Diary, 2 June 1837, EO XVIII<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Today the Mazenodian Family continues this practice of oraison &#8211; of praying in communion with others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since divine Providence has called on us to restore to honour the devotion to Our Lady of Lumi\u00e8res, we must fulfil our mission in its entirety\u2026 As today is the beautiful feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, I did &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=4178\">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-4178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4178","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=4178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}