{"id":5072,"date":"2022-03-22T01:00:47","date_gmt":"2022-03-22T00:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5072"},"modified":"2022-03-21T02:19:55","modified_gmt":"2022-03-21T01:19:55","slug":"it-is-therefore-necessary-to-entrust-this-work-to-the-care-of-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5072","title":{"rendered":"IT IS THEREFORE NECESSARY TO ENTRUST THIS WORK TO THE CARE OF GOD"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>The Oblates had been preaching a parish mission in a village of Provence and were experiencing hardships and lack of success. Eugene commented in his diary:<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><em><strong>Letter from Fr. Court\u00e8s. He gives me the worst news about the mission of Bargemon. Never anything more hopeless. One ought to conclude from it that this poor Court\u00e8s is unfortunate on mission. Nevertheless, this is to lose courage a little quickly.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3>Despite the setback, Eugene recalls his experience that God produces results in every parish mission.<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><em><strong>Which is the mission where one does not see those who appeared the most distant at the beginning return to God? One must not, therefore, appear beaten nor to be disposed to cede the field of battle&#8230; It is therefore necessary to hand over this work purely and simply to the care of God. Let us wait with patience and resignation.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Eugene de Mazenod\u2019s Diary, 16 November 1844, EO XXI<\/em><\/h3>\n<h3>When we are faced with difficulties, let us entrust ourselves simply to the care of God.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Oblates had been preaching a parish mission in a village of Provence and were experiencing hardships and lack of success. Eugene commented in his diary: Letter from Fr. Court\u00e8s. He gives me the worst news about the mission of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5072\">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-5072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5072","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=5072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}