{"id":5314,"date":"2022-11-28T01:00:58","date_gmt":"2022-11-28T00:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5314"},"modified":"2022-11-27T03:55:35","modified_gmt":"2022-11-27T02:55:35","slug":"we-encompass-the-whole-world-with-our-apostles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5314","title":{"rendered":"WE ENCOMPASS THE WHOLE WORLD WITH OUR APOSTLES"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>Monday Advent Week 1<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h3>&#8220;<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">I say to you, many will come from the east and the west, and will recline with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob at the banquet in the Kingdom of heaven.\u201d Matthew 8:11<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><em><strong>You will not find anywhere a group of wiser and more fervent youngsters. I\u2019m going to send six to Texas, four to Red River and three to Ceylon.\u00a0 I am going to ordain them priests before their imminent departure as they are all deacons. We have never have had such a large number of them in the Congregation. We encompass the whole world with our apostles whose zeal and devotedness wring from me tears of joy and tenderness. They are going off happy to be chosen to announce the Good News without giving the impression that they are making the least sacrifice. How can we not admire the working of the Holy Spirit in these generous souls?<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: right;\">Letter to Father Charles Baret, 24 January 1852, EO XI n. 1098<\/h3>\n<p>[NOTE: Each year at around this time, I pause the daily chronological reflection on the writings of Saint Eugene. This year I have decided to &#8220;pause&#8221; but to do something different: a daily quote from Saint Eugene linked to the Gospel of the day of the liturgical season.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday Advent Week 1 &#8220;I say to you, many will come from the east and the west, and will recline with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob at the banquet in the Kingdom of heaven.\u201d Matthew 8:11 You will not find anywhere &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5314\">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-5314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5314","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=5314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}