{"id":4803,"date":"2021-07-13T02:00:32","date_gmt":"2021-07-13T00:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=4803"},"modified":"2021-06-20T23:39:02","modified_gmt":"2021-06-20T21:39:02","slug":"a-prismatic-imagination-which-embellished-everything-and-made-every-prospect-appear-in-its-most-brilliant-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=4803","title":{"rendered":"A PRISMATIC IMAGINATION WHICH EMBELLISHED EVERYTHING AND MADE EVERY PROSPECT APPEAR IN ITS MOST BRILLIANT SIDE"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Father Daly was an optimist whose sense of judgement was to lead the Oblates into some trouble later on. It did, however, encourage the Oblates to invest themselves in this part of the world and to begin a highly successful missionary province.<\/h3>\n<h3><em>\u201cFather Daly,\u201d as we read in Chroniques de la province d\u2019Angleterre, \u201cwas endowed with a prismatic imagination which embellished everything and made every prospect appear in its most brilliant side. \u201dNo doubt carried away by Father Daly\u2019s enthusiasm and encouraged by the warm reception received at Dublin, Father Aubert soon entertained great dreams. His letters to Bishop de Mazenod have now disappeared, as well as the one he wrote to Father Honorat at Longueuil (Canada), however this Father gave a resume of it when he wrote to Bishop de Mazenod on November 23: \u201cReverend Father Aubert wrote to us from Dublin to give us very consoling news which even will yield an influence here in Canada among our friends and enemies. He even promised us a man for next spring. It\u2019s encouraging to have a house with a novitiate in England and one in Ireland. Numerous candidates are expected for the novitiate. Surely God is interested in us and our dear Mother is protecting us.\u201d<\/em><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Father Daly was an optimist whose sense of judgement was to lead the Oblates into some trouble later on. It did, however, encourage the Oblates to invest themselves in this part of the world and to begin a highly successful &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=4803\">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-4803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4803","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=4803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4803\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}