{"id":5362,"date":"2023-02-05T23:01:45","date_gmt":"2023-02-05T22:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5362"},"modified":"2023-02-06T00:05:08","modified_gmt":"2023-02-05T23:05:08","slug":"departure-of-our-apostles-for-oregon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5362","title":{"rendered":"DEPARTURE OF OUR APOSTLES FOR OREGON"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Eugene proudly noted in his personal journal the departure of the first Oblate missionaries to the USA: Fr. Pascal Ricard (41 years of age) and Brother G. Blanchet, 28 years of age, and scholastics Eug\u00e8ne Casimir Chirouse, 26 years of age, and Jean Charles Pandosy, 23 years of age. Chirouse and Pandosy were still doing their seminary studies , and would be ordained to the priesthood in Walla Walla a year later.<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><em><strong>Departure of our apostles for Oregon. Ah, how touching this was! How wonderful it was! While blessing them, I would have gladly prostrated myself at their feet to kiss these &#8220;feet of those who announce the Good News&#8221; [ed Is. 52, 7]. They departed pleased, happy to have been chosen for this great mission.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Eugene de Mazenod\u2019s Diary, 22 January 1847, EO XXI<\/em><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>REFLECTION<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<h3>&#8220;A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.&#8221; \u00a0(Mahatma Gandhi)<\/h3>\n<h3><em>Let us pause to pray for all missionaries: lay, religious and priests. May their courage and joy in proclaiming the Gospel in all lands build strong communities of witnessing disciples around the world.<\/em><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eugene proudly noted in his personal journal the departure of the first Oblate missionaries to the USA: Fr. Pascal Ricard (41 years of age) and Brother G. Blanchet, 28 years of age, and scholastics Eug\u00e8ne Casimir Chirouse, 26 years of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5362\">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-5362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5362","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=5362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}