{"id":5374,"date":"2023-02-20T01:00:13","date_gmt":"2023-02-20T00:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5374"},"modified":"2023-02-13T04:07:14","modified_gmt":"2023-02-13T03:07:14","slug":"missionary-zeal-grows-out-of-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5374","title":{"rendered":"MISSIONARY ZEAL GROWS OUT OF LOVE"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><em><strong>Letter from Brother Blanchet. He also requests of me to go to the foreign missions.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Diary of Eugene de Mazenod, 13 January 1847, EO XXI<\/em><\/h3>\n<h3>Twenty-nine-year-old, Georges Blanchet was one of the first Oblate Brothers to be sent to the United States in 1847. Twenty five years later, at the insistence of the local Bishop, he was ordained to the priesthood in British Columbia. He died, aged 88, and a river and a lake in British Columbia were named after him.<\/h3>\n<h3><strong>REFLECTION<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h3>&#8220;<em>Missionary zeal does not grow out of intellectual beliefs, nor out of theological arguments, but out of love.<\/em>&#8221; \u00a0 (Roland Allen)<\/h3>\n<h3>God of Heaven and Earth,<\/h3>\n<h3>You have fed me your word<\/h3>\n<h3>And sent me forth to love and serve.<\/h3>\n<h3>A missionary, you have called me to be. Even in my smallness and sin<\/h3>\n<h3>You chose me to sing the song of your love, The hymn of your mercy,<\/h3>\n<h3>The anthem of your justice.<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: right;\">Catholic Relief Services<\/h3>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Letter from Brother Blanchet. He also requests of me to go to the foreign missions. Diary of Eugene de Mazenod, 13 January 1847, EO XXI Twenty-nine-year-old, Georges Blanchet was one of the first Oblate Brothers to be sent to the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5374\">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-5374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5374","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=5374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}