{"id":5065,"date":"2022-03-15T02:00:11","date_gmt":"2022-03-15T01:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5065"},"modified":"2022-03-12T22:22:10","modified_gmt":"2022-03-12T21:22:10","slug":"it-is-a-small-force-which-may-be-able-to-serve-the-church-and-the-congregation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5065","title":{"rendered":"IT IS A SMALL FORCE WHICH MAY BE ABLE TO SERVE THE CHURCH AND THE CONGREGATION"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>From the beginning Eugene referred to the scholastics, preparing themselves for priesthood, as &#8220;the Oblates&#8221; &#8211; he recognized in them their desire to give all to God. They had studied in various places, but now Eugene brought them back to Marseilles to study at the Major Seminary<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><em><strong>The twenty Oblates who are coming to study at the Major Seminary were presented to me today. It was wonderful to see. Ah! If they are such as they should be, what hope for the congregation! In addition to these twenty here present, we are still counting four of them in Lumi\u00e8res, two of them at l\u2019Osier and two of them in Canada, a total of twenty-eight. It\u2019s a small force which may be able, in its time, to serve the Church and the congregation well.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Eugene de Mazenod\u2019s Diary, 17 October 1844, EO XXI<\/em><\/h3>\n<h3>Today, Eugene&#8217;s appreciative words would continue to apply to the new members of the various branches of the Mazenodian Family: &#8220;What hope for the Church!&#8221;<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the beginning Eugene referred to the scholastics, preparing themselves for priesthood, as &#8220;the Oblates&#8221; &#8211; he recognized in them their desire to give all to God. They had studied in various places, but now Eugene brought them back to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5065\">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-5065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5065","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=5065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5065\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}