{"id":4446,"date":"2020-06-30T05:00:47","date_gmt":"2020-06-30T03:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=4446"},"modified":"2020-06-29T04:18:05","modified_gmt":"2020-06-29T02:18:05","slug":"each-one-has-the-right-to-be-listened-to-by-their-pastor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=4446","title":{"rendered":"EACH ONE HAS THE RIGHT TO BE LISTENED TO BY THEIR PASTOR"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><strong>I locked myself into my office to clear my desk. These audiences every day take all of my time. Nevertheless, they are necessary. It is the duty of a bishop to make himself available to all his flock. I have the satisfaction of seeing everybody satisfied with the way they have been received when they leave. I must give advice and help, each one has the right to be listened to by their pastor.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The \u201daudiences\u201d that Bishop Eugene refers to was a period of four hours from 10 am to 2 pm each day when he was present to receive people in his office. Everyone was always welcome and there were no appointments &#8211; people just waited one after the other.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Barth\u00e9lemy des Martyrs [ed. One of the outstanding episcopal figures of the 16<sup>th<\/sup> century] devoted more time to audiences than I do and it does not seem to have been time wasted. It would be possible to spend it more pleasantly, but that does not matter as long as I am doing my duty. We must not lose sight of that beautiful text from St. Paul: <i>Because we are your servants for the sake of Jesus <\/i><\/strong><i>[ed. 2 Corinthians 4:5]<\/i><strong><i>.<\/i> With that in mind it is possible to put up with every discomfort and every pain.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Eugene de Mazenod\u2019s Diary, 8 September 1838, EO XIX<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I locked myself into my office to clear my desk. These audiences every day take all of my time. Nevertheless, they are necessary. It is the duty of a bishop to make himself available to all his flock. I have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=4446\">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-4446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4446","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=4446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}