{"id":5016,"date":"2022-02-03T01:59:15","date_gmt":"2022-02-03T00:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5016"},"modified":"2022-02-03T01:59:15","modified_gmt":"2022-02-03T00:59:15","slug":"we-must-follow-the-indications-of-grace-and-not-force-anything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5016","title":{"rendered":"WE MUST FOLLOW THE INDICATIONS OF GRACE AND NOT FORCE ANYTHING."},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Eugene had desired that some Oblates be permitted to establish themselves to work in the Diocese of Quebec, but the Archbishop had not been open to the idea. Now there had been a change of heart and he had allowed the Oblates to establish themselves in Bytown (present-day Ottawa).<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><em><strong>I rejoice keenly over the turn of events regarding the establishment at Bytown. Perseverance is necessary. It is not possible to have the entire success we desire as soon as we would wish. We must follow the indications of grace and not force anything.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><em><strong>You will readily understand what must have been my joy when you informed me that the diocese of Quebec was being opened to you. You know how much I desired this moment would come.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><em><strong>Divine Providence has heard our prayers and now you are being received under the best auspices. Who would have believed you would be called by the Archbishop himself and that he would welcome you so amiably as well as his coadjutor Bishop! It is so true that the good God disposes hearts according to his good pleasure for you will recall that they represented the Archbishop to you as formidable and difficult to make amenable to what he had not asked himself.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Letter to Jean Baptiste Honorat, 18 July 1844, EO I n 43<\/em><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eugene had desired that some Oblates be permitted to establish themselves to work in the Diocese of Quebec, but the Archbishop had not been open to the idea. Now there had been a change of heart and he had allowed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5016\">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-5016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5016","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=5016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5016\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}