{"id":4916,"date":"2021-10-19T02:00:59","date_gmt":"2021-10-19T00:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=4916"},"modified":"2021-10-15T13:28:30","modified_gmt":"2021-10-15T11:28:30","slug":"you-say-to-me-that-is-not-where-the-most-abandoned-souls-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=4916","title":{"rendered":"YOU SAY TO ME: THAT IS NOT WHERE THE MOST ABANDONED SOULS ARE"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>The Missionary Oblates were founded to evangelize among the most abandoned &#8211; usually in rural areas. This is how they began in Canada. Eugene realized, however, that it would be essential to have a community as a base in the two large cities: Montreal and Quebec. These establishments would provide a means to finance the work among those in the poor rural areas.<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><em><strong>I would insist that we establish ourselves at Quebec and Montreal&#8230;<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><em><strong>With the trend of all the Congregations, old and new, to establish themselves everywhere, it is impossible that an important prospect will go begging. You say to me: that is not where the most abandoned souls are. True, but in establishing yourselves there, you provide yourselves with the means to come to the aid of those most abandoned souls, without taking into account that you will also do much good to many of those who, while not abandoned, are nonetheless in need.<\/strong><\/em><\/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>A reminder that the &#8220;most abandoned&#8221; are not always necessarily the materially poor &#8211; they are all those who do not know Jesus Christ as their Savior.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Missionary Oblates were founded to evangelize among the most abandoned &#8211; usually in rural areas. This is how they began in Canada. Eugene realized, however, that it would be essential to have a community as a base in the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=4916\">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-4916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4916","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=4916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4916\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}