{"id":5048,"date":"2022-02-25T02:00:01","date_gmt":"2022-02-25T01:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5048"},"modified":"2022-02-19T19:45:24","modified_gmt":"2022-02-19T18:45:24","slug":"god-will-help-me-it-is-him-whom-i-invoke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5048","title":{"rendered":"GOD WILL HELP ME; IT IS HIM WHOM I INVOKE"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><em><strong>Attendance at Vespers and at the sermon at the work of la Jeunesse <\/strong><\/em>[the Youth]<em><strong>. I gave the blessing.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3>Eugene then writes details of a very difficult situation that he had to handle in this institution, and concludes<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><em><strong>This is one of the most delicate matters of my episcopate &#8211; through which I have had the good fortune, thanks to God, of bringing about good until the present.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3>There had been a serious problem with the behavior of the director of this work, who was blind to the mistakes he was making and stubbornly resisted correcting the situation.<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><em><strong>It remains to be seen what I will have to decide later with regard to the director whom I was able to cover with my pastoral mantle, but who was not capable of obtaining my appreciation nor my affection by his evasive and very unacceptable conduct since I had exceeded all measures of mercy and of more than paternal kindness towards him. God will help me; it is him whom I invoke.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Eugene de Mazenod\u2019s Diary, 28 July 1844, EO XXI<\/em><\/h3>\n<h3>Whenever Eugene faced a difficulty. this was his immediate approach: &#8221; God will help me; it is him whom I invoke.&#8221;<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attendance at Vespers and at the sermon at the work of la Jeunesse [the Youth]. I gave the blessing. Eugene then writes details of a very difficult situation that he had to handle in this institution, and concludes This is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5048\">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-5048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5048","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=5048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5048\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}