{"id":4223,"date":"2020-06-03T05:00:32","date_gmt":"2020-06-03T03:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=4223"},"modified":"2020-05-28T15:40:17","modified_gmt":"2020-05-28T13:40:17","slug":"how-much-do-i-thank-the-lord-for-knowing-how-to-speak-the-language-of-those-i-must-instruct-and-who-listen-to-me-because-they-understand-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=4223","title":{"rendered":"HOW MUCH DO I THANK THE LORD FOR KNOWING HOW TO SPEAK THE LANGUAGE OF THOSE I MUST INSTRUCT, AND WHO LISTEN TO ME BECAUSE THEY UNDERSTAND ME"},"content":{"rendered":"
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“Confirmation at the La Charit\u00e9 home. A great number of children were presented to me to receive this sacrament”<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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La Vieille Charit\u00e9, Marseille<\/p><\/div>\n

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Always close to the people, especially the poor in this almshouse of Marseilles \u201cfor the vagrants and the homeless,\u201d Eugene narrates that he preached in the Proven\u00e7al language for an hour and-a-half!<\/p>\n

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I would have stopped sooner, if I had noticed that the listeners were not attentive, but old and young were inhaling my words, so to say, that is why I continued. That is what happens wherever I go. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Oh! how much do I thank the Lord for knowing how to speak the language of those I must instruct, and who listen to me because they understand me. I would not change my approach for all the gold in the world; my conviction has no need of the witness that I perceive every day as to the excellence of that method.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Eugene de Mazenod\u2019s Diary, 26 September 1837, EO XVIII<\/em><\/p>\n

“As Jesus went ashore, he saw a great crowd; and he had compassion for them, because they were like sheep without a\u00a0shepherd; and he began to teach them many things.” (Mark 6:34)<\/p>\n

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“Confirmation at the La Charit\u00e9 home. A great number of children were presented to me to receive this sacrament”   Always close to the people, especially the poor in this almshouse of Marseilles \u201cfor the vagrants and the homeless,\u201d Eugene … Continue reading →<\/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-4223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4223","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=4223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}