{"id":5379,"date":"2023-02-20T23:00:07","date_gmt":"2023-02-20T22:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5379"},"modified":"2023-02-20T23:12:20","modified_gmt":"2023-02-20T22:12:20","slug":"this-powerful-attraction-which-compelled-him-to-evangelize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5379","title":{"rendered":"THIS POWERFUL ATTRACTION WHICH COMPELLED HIM TO EVANGELIZE"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><em><strong>Arrival of Fr. Lempfrit, a Carthusian whom the Pope transferred to our congregation, placing him under obedience to me. This Father requested to enter our congregation in order to dedicate himself to the conversion of indigenous people; he brought with him a Brother who had left the Carthusians before having made profession therein in order to follow the same vocation. The Father had not at all left the order of Carthusians for reason of discontentment or of lack of stability, but only because he could not resist the powerful attraction which compelled him to evangelize the native peoples.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Diary of Eugene de Mazenod, 14 January 1847, EO XXI<\/em><\/h3>\n<h3>The Brother was the 25 year-old Italian, Gaspare De Steffanis, who was the first Oblate Brother to go to Jaffna, where he would be a missionary for 31 years.<\/h3>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>REFLECTION<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<h3>Guide my path, Lord.<\/h3>\n<h3>Send me among the people you have made, Whether across the globe or across the street.<\/h3>\n<h3>Give me the grace to be welcomed in<\/h3>\n<h3>And the courage to stand out.<\/h3>\n<h3>May my words compel<\/h3>\n<h3>As they invoke your spirit.<\/h3>\n<h3>May my acts shine<\/h3>\n<h3>As they demonstrate your faithfulness.<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Catholic Relief Services<\/em><\/h3>\n<h3><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arrival of Fr. Lempfrit, a Carthusian whom the Pope transferred to our congregation, placing him under obedience to me. This Father requested to enter our congregation in order to dedicate himself to the conversion of indigenous people; he brought with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5379\">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-5379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5379","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=5379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}