{"id":5396,"date":"2023-03-02T01:00:25","date_gmt":"2023-03-02T00:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5396"},"modified":"2023-02-27T02:17:15","modified_gmt":"2023-02-27T01:17:15","slug":"thursday-i-lent-god-shows-us-the-road-and-will-not-abandon-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5396","title":{"rendered":"THURSDAY I LENT: God shows us the road and will not abandon us"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">As a child I used to hear from the books of my forefathers that you, O LORD, always free those who are pleasing to you.\u00a0Now help me, who am alone and have no one but you, O LORD, my God. (Esther 4: 16)<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><em><strong>\u201cWe need to have some courage and confidence in God who shows us the road and will not abandon us when we act in his name and for his glory.\u201d<\/strong> <\/em><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Letter of Eugene de Mazenod to Fr Eugene Guigues in Canada, 5 December 1844, EO I n 50<\/em><\/h3>\n<h3><strong>REFLECTION<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h3>\u00a0LEAD, Kindly Light, amid the encircling gloom<br \/>\nLead Thou me on!<br \/>\nThe night is dark, and I am far from home\u2014<br \/>\nLead Thou me on!<\/h3>\n<h3>Keep Thou my feet; I do not ask to see<br \/>\nThe distant scene\u2014one step enough for me.<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: right;\">\u00a0(John Henry Newman)<\/h3>\n<h3><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a child I used to hear from the books of my forefathers that you, O LORD, always free those who are pleasing to you.\u00a0Now help me, who am alone and have no one but you, O LORD, my God. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5396\">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-5396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5396","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=5396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5396\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}