{"id":472,"date":"2011-01-19T05:00:10","date_gmt":"2011-01-19T03:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=472"},"modified":"2011-01-18T22:51:17","modified_gmt":"2011-01-18T20:51:17","slug":"parish-missions-preaching-to-be-prepared-in-prayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=472","title":{"rendered":"PARISH MISSIONS: PREACHING TO BE PREPARED IN PRAYER"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was the Saviour who had to speak through his co-operator, as Eugene wrote in his Rule:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h5><strong>The missionary \u2013 lest his preaching be in vain \u2013 will pray and get others to pray to the Divine Master of hearts, to deign to accompany the words of his minister with that powerful grace, which moves and converts souls, and without which all words are but as sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>1826 Rule<\/em> Part I, Chapter 3, \u00a71, Art. 24.<\/p>\n<p>Today with so many aids to preaching and catechising available, it is easy to forget the necessity of allowing ourselves to be the mouthpiece of Jesus Christ and to prepare our sermons \u201con our knees.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was the Saviour who had to speak through his co-operator, as Eugene wrote in his Rule: The missionary \u2013 lest his preaching be in vain \u2013 will pray and get others to pray to the Divine Master of hearts, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=472\">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":[53],"tags":[32,26,56],"class_list":["post-472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rule","tag-mission-preaching","tag-prayer","tag-preaching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472","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=472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}