{"id":4589,"date":"2020-11-20T05:00:22","date_gmt":"2020-11-20T04:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=4589"},"modified":"2020-11-20T02:52:46","modified_gmt":"2020-11-20T01:52:46","slug":"i-could-confide-this-new-mission-only-to-men-of-good-will-and-dedication-and-thus-i-had-to-be-sure-of-their-agreement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=4589","title":{"rendered":"I COULD CONFIDE THIS NEW MISSION ONLY TO MEN OF GOOD WILL AND DEDICATION AND THUS I HAD TO BE SURE OF THEIR AGREEMENT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before agreeing to send missionaries across the Atlantic to Canada, Eugene had to consult all the Oblates.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Well! I dared not respond positively to the bishop, but I promised him that I would consider his request and that upon his return I would explain thesteps that I was going to take to satisfy him.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>My desire was to consult all the members of the Congregation and to reply to the Bishop of Montreal only after having their consent. It was a faraway mission. It would take dedication to undertake it.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I could confide it only to men of good will and dedication. I had to be sure of their agreement. This is what I have done.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He then describes their reaction to the consultation .<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>I first called some of my local superiors to meet with me. They immediately echoed this view. Some other members of the Congregation who wereinformed&#8230; \u00a0offered to be among the first to go.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>All have assured me that there would be one voice for accepting such a beautiful proposal.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Eugene de Mazenod\u2019s Diary, 15 and 16 July 1841, EO XX<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before agreeing to send missionaries across the Atlantic to Canada, Eugene had to consult all the Oblates. Well! I dared not respond positively to the bishop, but I promised him that I would consider his request and that upon his &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=4589\">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-4589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4589","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=4589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4589\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}