{"id":4696,"date":"2021-03-04T03:00:06","date_gmt":"2021-03-04T02:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=4696"},"modified":"2021-03-01T18:23:37","modified_gmt":"2021-03-01T17:23:37","slug":"the-more-you-are-holy-exemplary-regular-the-more-good-will-flourish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=4696","title":{"rendered":"THE MORE YOU ARE HOLY, EXEMPLARY, REGULAR, THE MORE GOOD WILL FLOURISH"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>St Francis of Assisi had instructed his friars to preach with words only when necessary. In other words, it was the exemplary quality of their lives that was meant to make the biggest impact on people. This too was the principle of Eugene: let your actions speak louder than your words.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Anyway you realize that the reputation and the fame of the Congregation are in your hands. The more you are holy, exemplary, regular, the more that good will flourish.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>You are expected to make it grow in vast regions for Montreal is perhaps only the gateway leading the family to the conquest of souls in several countries.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>When you have reached the scene, you will sound out the terrain. The first thing is to get properly settled where we are called. If God blesses us, then we will see&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0May the aroma of your virtues attract Canadian clergy to you, whether from Montreal or Quebec, no matter, or rather, may Quebec also furnish her contingent and thus attract you into this diocese. But I anticipate the future by that thought.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Letter to the first Oblates leaving for Canada, 9 October 1841, EO I n 9<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St Francis of Assisi had instructed his friars to preach with words only when necessary. In other words, it was the exemplary quality of their lives that was meant to make the biggest impact on people. This too was the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=4696\">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-4696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4696","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=4696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}