{"id":51,"date":"2010-06-01T19:15:51","date_gmt":"2010-06-01T17:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=51"},"modified":"2012-03-04T11:59:59","modified_gmt":"2012-03-04T09:59:59","slug":"a-priest-gives-his-liberty-and-life-for-a-suffering-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=51","title":{"rendered":"A PRIEST GIVES HIS LIBERTY AND LIFE FOR A SUFFERING CHURCH"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Eugene the seminarian reflects on the meaning of priesthood in an abandoned Church:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The number of seminarians has risen considerably this year; I really think we are close to a hundred. Among the candidates we pride ourselves on, we can point to a Polish aristocrat of the same age as myself, the eldest son of an immensely rich family; his father has 24,000 vassals or serfs. <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Religion finds here some small consolation for the sheer panic, or to speak more plainly, the utter dismay with which our self-styled good society fled its sanctuary: she sees ranging themselves beneath her forsaken banners a few individuals who, over and above the priestly character of J.C.\u2019s ministers, naturally command respect in view of their education and birth. <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">So do not grudge, dear mama, do not grudge this poor Church, so terribly abandoned, scorned, trampled underfoot but which even so was the one who gave birth to us all in J.C., the homage that two or three individuals out of the whole of France (a small number I count myself happy to be one of) wish to pay her of their liberty and life. <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">And what reason could you possibly have for wanting me to delay any longer from committing myself, and devoting to the Spouse of J.C., which this divine Master formed by the shedding of all his blood, every moment of a life I received only to use for God\u2019s greater glory.<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Letter to Madame de Mazenod, 11 October 1809,\u00a0 O.W. XIV n. 61<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eugene the seminarian reflects on the meaning of priesthood in an abandoned Church: The number of seminarians has risen considerably this year; I really think we are close to a hundred. Among the candidates we pride ourselves on, we can &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=51\">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,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[4,6,8],"class_list":["post-51","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters","tag-church","tag-priesthood","tag-vocation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51","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=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}