{"id":5276,"date":"2022-11-02T00:30:15","date_gmt":"2022-11-01T23:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5276"},"modified":"2022-11-02T00:41:07","modified_gmt":"2022-11-01T23:41:07","slug":"i-do-not-at-all-want-any-smoking-wicks-in-the-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5276","title":{"rendered":"I DO NOT AT ALL WANT ANY SMOKING WICKS IN THE SOCIETY"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">&#8220;Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow.&#8221; Khalil Gibran<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3>Missionary zeal was the hallmark of Eugene\u2019s personality and whole life. On his deathbed his final wish for the Oblates was for them to have undying zeal for the salvation of souls.<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><em><strong>I do not at all want any smoking wicks in the society, may they burn, may they burn, may they be rekindled, may they light the way or leave.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Eugene de Mazenod\u2019s Diary, 19 July 1846, EO XXI<\/em><\/h3>\n<h3>Eugene spared no effort to rekindle the &#8220;smoldering wicks&#8221; in his missionary family. His letters are full of encouragement to those who needed to be rekindled so that they would become bright missionary lights. In the case when it became clear that the wick could not be saved from smoldering, it was time for the person to move on away from the Congregation and find a new direction in life.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow.&#8221; Khalil Gibran Missionary zeal was the hallmark of Eugene\u2019s personality and whole life. On his deathbed his final wish for the Oblates was for them &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5276\">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-5276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5276","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=5276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}