{"id":4569,"date":"2020-11-03T05:00:23","date_gmt":"2020-11-03T04:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=4569"},"modified":"2020-11-02T04:11:40","modified_gmt":"2020-11-02T03:11:40","slug":"you-must-be-careful-not-to-put-men-at-risk-by-burdening-them-with-what-they-cannot-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=4569","title":{"rendered":"YOU MUST BE CAREFUL NOT TO PUT MEN AT RISK BY BURDENING THEM WITH WHAT THEY CANNOT DO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eugene, writing to Fr. Court\u00e8s, the superior of the community in Aix en Provence, speaks of the new Oblate he has sent to the community: Jean Francois Allard. We will be hearing a lot more about him in the future as a missionary in Canada and Southern Africa.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>There is no doubt, my dear Father Court\u00e8s, that in sending you the excellent Father Allard, I thought I was making you a gift. I remained firm in this resolution despite all the requests addressed to me from the various houses where they wanted him. He is a precious person. I recommend him to you.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Then he sounds a note of caution which points to the danger of overburdening people with work demands and exposing them to burnout.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>\u00a0However, do not demand anything beyond his strength. He will do anything out of obedience but you must be careful not to put men at risk by burdening them with what they cannot do.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Letter to Hippolyte Court\u00e8s, 8 January 1841, EO IX n 722<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Are we tempted at times to make unrealistic demands on others which cause stress?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eugene, writing to Fr. Court\u00e8s, the superior of the community in Aix en Provence, speaks of the new Oblate he has sent to the community: Jean Francois Allard. We will be hearing a lot more about him in the future &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=4569\">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-4569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4569","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=4569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}