{"id":5066,"date":"2022-03-16T01:40:10","date_gmt":"2022-03-16T00:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5066"},"modified":"2022-03-16T01:40:10","modified_gmt":"2022-03-16T00:40:10","slug":"i-pray-the-good-lord-withdraw-you-from-dreams-of-childhood-and-give-you-the-heart-of-a-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5066","title":{"rendered":"I PRAY THE GOOD LORD WITHDRAW YOU FROM DREAMS OF CHILDHOOD AND GIVE YOU THE HEART OF A MAN"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Young Father Bermond gave Eugene many headaches as a result of his critical attitude and spirit of independence. In 1844 he had just been given an obedience to move to a new community in another part of France and had refused to move because he did not like the climate. Eugene gently told him &#8220;to grow up!&#8221;<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><em><strong>I pray the good Lord withdraw you from dreams of childhood and give you the heart of a man and especially of a religious man. You will be the happier for it and much more useful.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Letter to Father Francois-Xavier Bermond, 19 October 1844, EO X n 859<\/em><\/h3>\n<h3>We will have the opportunity to encounter him again in future writings of the Founder. Despite his shortcomings, he was a capable missionary who served the poor faithfully for 55 years of Oblate life in France and in Canada &#8220;with the heart of a man.&#8221; (See: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omiworld.org\/lemma\/bermond-francois-xavier\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.omiworld.org\/lemma\/bermond-francois-xavier\/<\/a> )<\/h3>\n<h3><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Young Father Bermond gave Eugene many headaches as a result of his critical attitude and spirit of independence. In 1844 he had just been given an obedience to move to a new community in another part of France and had &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5066\">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-5066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5066","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=5066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5066\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}