{"id":4915,"date":"2021-10-18T02:00:12","date_gmt":"2021-10-18T00:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=4915"},"modified":"2021-10-15T13:23:07","modified_gmt":"2021-10-15T11:23:07","slug":"let-us-go-about-our-business-as-we-please-honni-soit-qui-mal-y-pense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=4915","title":{"rendered":"LET US GO ABOUT OUR BUSINESS AS WE PLEASE: HONNI SOIT QUI MAL Y PENSE."},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Eugene&#8217;s advice to the Oblates in Canada to focus on doing what is right rather than trying to please the opinion of others.<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><em><strong>Furthermore I would wish that all of you, each as much as the others, focus yourselves more on your interior relations. What a mania you all have to speak of your business to everybody! Be polite but extremely reserved. Go about your business without troubling what all and sundry think of it. You often report to me the opinion of such and such a priest. What does it matter to me what they think? Where would we end if we were ever consulting the petty views of a flock of people? What concern is it of theirs? Is it not amusing to see them worrying about the opportuneness of the voyage of the particular Father whom you have sent to the General Chapter? In one of your letters, you told me you had to explain why, how, etc. What good is it to be so obliging? Once again, let us go about our business as we please: honni soit qui mal y pense.<\/strong><\/em> [ed: &#8220;shame on the one who thinks evil of it&#8221;]<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Letter to Fr Jean Baptiste Honorat, 7 October 1843, EO I n 27<\/em><\/h3>\n<h3><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eugene&#8217;s advice to the Oblates in Canada to focus on doing what is right rather than trying to please the opinion of others. Furthermore I would wish that all of you, each as much as the others, focus yourselves more &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=4915\">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-4915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4915","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=4915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}