{"id":5061,"date":"2022-03-09T02:00:20","date_gmt":"2022-03-09T01:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5061"},"modified":"2022-03-10T02:01:29","modified_gmt":"2022-03-10T01:01:29","slug":"it-is-a-question-of-forming-persons-who-are-to-be-imbued-with-the-spirit-of-jesus-christ-capable-of-fighting-the-enormous-power-of-the-devil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5061","title":{"rendered":"IT IS A QUESTION OF FORMING PERSONS WHO ARE TO BE IMBUED WITH THE SPIRIT OF JESUS CHRIST CAPABLE OF FIGHTING THE ENORMOUS POWER OF THE DEVIL"},"content":{"rendered":"

Helping people to become “Human, Christian, Saints” was the Oblate ideal. Eugene thus stressed the human foundations necessary to achieve this.<\/h3>\n

But I see that in everything we have to start again from the beginning with the very first principles of spiritual life. I implore you to demand also that they be polite, honest and kind. Do not permit any rudeness. Let them get used to bearing up with one another. Deal severely with any kind of murmur, and let charity reign among us to such an extent that it isn\u2019t even possible for anyone to fail in it in the slightest manner.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

Applying this to the scholastics in training to be missionaries:<\/h3>\n

In a word, let our training be manly, serious and totally saintly. It is a question of forming persons who are to be imbued with the spirit of Jesus Christ capable of fighting the enormous power of the devil, of destroying his reign among people, of building up the world so as to bring it to the truth and of serving the Church in the most lofty and difficult apostolate.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

Is it possible to achieve these results with those who are not generous, who have no courage, are lacking in love and have fallen into a rut? When does a person entertain such sentiments if he does not have them during the period of fervour?<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

Letter to Father Charles Bellon, 30 August 1844, EO X n 853<\/em><\/h3>\n

An invitation to all of us to renew our efforts to be imbued with the Spirit of Jesus in our daily lives and activities.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Helping people to become “Human, Christian, Saints” was the Oblate ideal. Eugene thus stressed the human foundations necessary to achieve this. But I see that in everything we have to start again from the beginning with the very first principles … 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-5061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5061","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=5061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5061\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}