{"id":4749,"date":"2021-04-14T02:00:52","date_gmt":"2021-04-14T00:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=4749"},"modified":"2021-04-13T21:48:58","modified_gmt":"2021-04-13T19:48:58","slug":"do-not-let-yourselves-be-overwhelmed-by-the-work-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=4749","title":{"rendered":"DO NOT LET YOURSELVES BE OVERWHELMED BY THE WORK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Knowing the zeal and generosity of the first group of Oblate missionaries in Canada, Eugene encouraged them to maintain a balance.<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Do not let yourselves be overwhelmed by the work which will soon surpass your strength. One must never want to do more than God permits. Plan all things wisely. Above all, always reserve time for study and for your personal sanctification in the interior of your house. That is indispensable.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Letter to Fr. Jean Baptiste Honorat, 26 March 1842, EO I n 10<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4750\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/tl-2-300x261.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"261\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/tl-2-300x261.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/tl-2.jpg 550w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Each one has to &#8220;BE&#8221; a person of God who prays and deepens their knowledge and relationship with God. That is indispensable for the success of the ministry, the &#8220;DO&#8221; of mission.<\/p>\n<p>An invitation to pause in our frenetic world of multi-tasking to examine our own equilibrium &#8211; more easily said than done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Knowing the zeal and generosity of the first group of Oblate missionaries in Canada, Eugene encouraged them to maintain a balance.\u00a0 Do not let yourselves be overwhelmed by the work which will soon surpass your strength. One must never want &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=4749\">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-4749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4749","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=4749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4749\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}