{"id":44,"date":"2010-05-22T18:24:31","date_gmt":"2010-05-22T16:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=44"},"modified":"2010-08-18T11:16:11","modified_gmt":"2010-08-18T09:16:11","slug":"i-will-have-the-consolation-of-leaving-behind-me-a-phalanx-of-good-missionaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=44","title":{"rendered":"I WILL HAVE THE CONSOLATION OF LEAVING BEHIND ME A PHALANX OF GOOD MISSIONARIES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">When Eugene died there were 414 Oblates (6 Bishops, 267 priests, 88 brothers) spread around the world. In 1854 he had written about this:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h6><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>\u201cI will have the consolation of leaving behind me a phalanx of good missionaries who spend their lives in extending the kingdom of Jesus Christ and weaving a crown for themselves to wear in glory. You would not believe the joy that this thought gives me. <\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/h6>\n<h6><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>I feel that I will continue to live through you, that I will continue to gain merit by your works. Death, which is approaching, will be sweet for me\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/h6>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">(E. de Mazenod to the Oblates of St. Boniface, 26 May 1854 in O.W. II n. 193)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Eugene continues to live through each one of us in our mission!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Eugene died there were 414 Oblates (6 Bishops, 267 priests, 88 brothers) spread around the world. In 1854 he had written about this: \u201cI will have the consolation of leaving behind me a phalanx of good missionaries who spend &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=44\">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":[39],"tags":[46,47],"class_list":["post-44","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters","tag-death","tag-founder"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44","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=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}