{"id":4905,"date":"2021-10-08T02:00:22","date_gmt":"2021-10-08T00:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=4905"},"modified":"2021-10-07T02:08:05","modified_gmt":"2021-10-07T00:08:05","slug":"i-see-some-difficulty-in-the-purchase-of-a-cow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=4905","title":{"rendered":"I SEE SOME DIFFICULTY IN THE PURCHASE OF A COW"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>I usually focus on the more spiritual extracts of the writings of St. Eugene. Apart from running a huge diocese, a missionary Congregation and its activities, he also gave his opinion on mundane activities!<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><em><strong>My dear son, Father Tempier has not yet returned from a short trip he had to take. I will therefore answer the letter you have just written to him. I am perfectly in agreement that you should get rid of your horses. I do not see why you should deprive yourselves of 600 francs of income that would result from renting out your meadow for the pleasure of pasturing two nearly useless animals&#8230;<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><em><strong>I see some difficulty in the purchase of a cow. This animal would eat up your hay, and you would be deprived of the income from your meadow. Truly your land needs enriching; but besides doing this by having a few pigs whose sale pays back for the expenses they cause. I think it would be easy to buy manure in the countryside. However, it would be a good thing to have a goat to furnish milk for those Fathers who might need it.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Letter to Father Etienne Semeria in Vico, Corsica, 24 August 1843, EO X n 813<\/em><\/h3>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3>Reminds me of the great mystic, St Teresa of Avila, who said that she found God among the pots and pans in the kitchen.<\/h3>\n<h3><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I usually focus on the more spiritual extracts of the writings of St. Eugene. Apart from running a huge diocese, a missionary Congregation and its activities, he also gave his opinion on mundane activities! My dear son, Father Tempier has &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=4905\">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-4905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4905","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=4905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4905\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}