{"id":5044,"date":"2022-02-21T02:00:35","date_gmt":"2022-02-21T01:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5044"},"modified":"2022-02-19T19:28:31","modified_gmt":"2022-02-19T18:28:31","slug":"treat-him-with-charity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5044","title":{"rendered":"TREAT HIM WITH CHARITY"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eugene, aware of the pain experienced by the Oblate community in Corsica because of the behavior of Leopold Carles, (which we saw in a previous entry) wrote to its superior.<\/h3>\n

In this world, one must expect everything, my most dear Father Semeria. There is nothing more scandalous than the defection of the unfortunate Carles, but nothing less surprising in the light of the pitiable behavior he has always maintained. I am going to decide his case immediately, but I am writing to you beforehand to ease your pain. I am enclosing in this letter the one I am sending this unfortunate man; read it before giving it to him. I approved the conduct that you followed in regard to him. Independently of his bad dispositions, his disobedience merited this sentence…<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

Try to cover up the scandal as much as you can; treat him with charity, but do not let yourself be outdone. You have nothing to reproach yourself for, the evil dates from far back. It is a great misfortune that Masters of Novices are not informed enough and allow themselves to be fooled.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

Letter to Father Etienne Semeria, 25 July 1844, EO X n 850<\/em><\/h3>\n

Eugene and the local community had done their best to help him, but to no avail. “Treat him with charity” was the advice to them in dealing with him in the remaining days he would be with them.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Eugene, aware of the pain experienced by the Oblate community in Corsica because of the behavior of Leopold Carles, (which we saw in a previous entry) wrote to its superior. In this world, one must expect everything, my most dear … Continue reading →<\/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-5044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5044","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=5044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5044\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}