{"id":5123,"date":"2022-09-06T02:00:56","date_gmt":"2022-09-06T00:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5123"},"modified":"2022-07-20T11:00:11","modified_gmt":"2022-07-20T09:00:11","slug":"babeaus-conversion-as-the-stimulus-to-bring-others-to-the-sacraments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5123","title":{"rendered":"BABEAU&#8217;S CONVERSION AS THE STIMULUS TO BRING OTHERS TO THE SACRAMENTS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><i><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">It is the chief joy of all holy beings to witness the joy and happiness of those around them.<\/span> <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">(Ellen G. White)<\/span><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<h3>So powerful had Babeau&#8217;s conversion been, that she now wielded all her authority on the women of the market to lead them to conversion themselves.<\/h3>\n<h3>Eugene, who administered the sacrament of confirmation every Monday morning in his chapel, noted in amazement in his diary:<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><em><strong>I would have believed that on this Monday no one would be presented, having administered the sacrament of Confirmation on Saturday. But, no, it must be said that, since I have been bishop, not a single Monday has passed without my confirming any adult in my chapel. Today, besides a woman from Africa, there were, I do not know how many, women of the market who are returning in great numbers to the practice of religion.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><em><strong>The association formed by Fr. Barrelle under the patronage of Saint Anne already counts nine hundred of these good women, who are like so many apostles for bringing back their companions. I would never have believed that there were so many women among the people who lived without the sacraments.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Eugene de Mazenod\u2019s Diary, 17 March 1845, EO XXI<\/em><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><i><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">How do I live out my faith each day? Am<\/span> <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">I like an apostle who inspires others through the witness of the quality of my life?<\/span><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is the chief joy of all holy beings to witness the joy and happiness of those around them. (Ellen G. White) So powerful had Babeau&#8217;s conversion been, that she now wielded all her authority on the women of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5123\">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-5123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5123","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=5123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}