{"id":5326,"date":"2022-12-06T01:00:29","date_gmt":"2022-12-06T00:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5326"},"modified":"2022-12-05T15:50:30","modified_gmt":"2022-12-05T14:50:30","slug":"my-soul-joins-in-the-happy-emotions-that-make-heaven-rejoice-for-sinners-who-are-converted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5326","title":{"rendered":"MY SOUL JOINS IN THE HAPPY EMOTIONS THAT MAKE HEAVEN REJOICE FOR SINNERS WHO ARE CONVERTED"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>Tuesday of the Second Week of Advent<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">&#8220;If a man has a hundred sheep and one of them goes astray, will he not leave the ninety-nine in the hills and go in search of the stray?<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">And if he finds it, amen, I say to you, he rejoices more over it than over the ninety-nine that did not stray.&#8221;<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: right;\">Mt 18:12-13<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 80px;\">\n<em><strong>&#8220;The care we owe you, by constantly occupying our thoughts with the pain caused by the loss of so many souls who have fallen from the paths of salvation, is often rewarded with the most comforting consolations. <\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><em><strong>When we see grace acting powerfully among you and spreading both light in people&#8217; s minds and charity in their hearts, when the infinite mercy of the Lord is manifested with brilliance in the midst of our flock, and when the lost sheep that we thought was lost is brought back to the fold and restored to our love, then our rejoicing is great, we can say, like St. Paul, that we &#8220;overflow with joy&#8221; (2 Cor 7:4), for our soul joins in the happy emotions that make heaven rejoice for sinners who are converted.&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Bishop Eugene de Mazenod, Pastoral Letter on the Missions, 1844<\/em><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday of the Second Week of Advent &#8220;If a man has a hundred sheep and one of them goes astray, will he not leave the ninety-nine in the hills and go in search of the stray? And if he finds &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5326\">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-5326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5326","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=5326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}