{"id":5249,"date":"2022-10-13T01:00:24","date_gmt":"2022-10-13T00:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5249"},"modified":"2022-10-06T21:40:33","modified_gmt":"2022-10-06T20:40:33","slug":"if-you-knew-what-pleasure-i-derive-from-the-least-details-of-what-you-are-doing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5249","title":{"rendered":"IF YOU KNEW WHAT PLEASURE I DERIVE FROM THE LEAST DETAILS OF WHAT YOU ARE DOING"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">&#8220;Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.&#8221; (Rollo May)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Eugene always regarded himself as being the father of his missionary family &#8211; and loved each of its members. He understood well that communication was the cement that keeps a family together, and thus Eugene placed major importance on this, especially once the Oblates began to go to places outside of France.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em><strong>I have recommended that local superiors write me every three months. Apart from such regularity in correspondence being an exigency of good order, if you knew what pleasure I derive from the least details of what you are doing, you would not be so stingy in giving them.<\/strong><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Letter to Eugene Guigues in Canada, 19 November, EO I n 59<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Communication is the cement that keeps our Mazenodian Family united and a powerful force of evangelization and hope in our needy world. Let all of us who honor St Eugene as a father make a greater effort to get to know the other members, the diverse vocational expressions and the many groups that form our widespread missionary family.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-5250\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Eugene-missions-sea-300x169.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Eugene-missions-sea-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Eugene-missions-sea-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Eugene-missions-sea-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Eugene-missions-sea-1536x864.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Eugene-missions-sea.png 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.&#8221; (Rollo May) Eugene always regarded himself as being the father of his missionary family &#8211; and loved each of its members. He understood well that communication was the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5249\">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-5249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5249","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=5249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}