{"id":5290,"date":"2022-11-10T01:00:59","date_gmt":"2022-11-10T00:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5290"},"modified":"2022-11-07T02:40:48","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T01:40:48","slug":"this-will-be-the-first-wig-of-the-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5290","title":{"rendered":"THIS WILL BE THE FIRST WIG OF THE SOCIETY"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cWhat you’re supposed to do when you don’t like a thing is change it. If you can’t change it, change the way you think about it.\u201d (Maya Angelou)<\/span><\/h3>\n

In his journal, Eugene wrote with a sense of humor:<\/h3>\n

Letter from Fr. Ricard, insistent about his missions. He is requesting permission to cover his head, lacking hair on the top. Nothing more justified. This will be the first wig of the society.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

Eugene de Mazenod\u2019s Diary, 19 February 1846, EO XXI<\/em><\/h3>\n

An entry that brings a smile to our faces! The only picture we have of Father Pascal Ricard shows him wigless but with an impressive set of sideburns!<\/h3>\n

We do not know about the adventures of the “First Wig”, but what we do know is that he was a zealous missionary who led the first Oblate foundation in the United States. He had been in poor health in France, and yet said “yes” generously when asked to cross the Atlantic to begin a new and difficult foreign mission.<\/h3>\n

Two years later, Eugene wrote about him:<\/h3>\n

Father Ricard was practically at death\u2019s door when assigned to found the Oregon mission, and yet he put his whole trust in God and now he writes that he has never felt so well, and even without a hair on his head hasn\u2019t caught a single cold, though on long journeys he has had to sleep on the ground and often in the mud.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

Letter to Father Viala, 29 July 1848, EO X n 982<\/em><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cWhat you’re supposed to do when you don’t like a thing is change it. If you can’t change it, change the way you think about it.\u201d (Maya Angelou) In his journal, Eugene wrote with a sense of humor: Letter from … Continue reading →<\/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-5290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5290","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=5290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}