{"id":5397,"date":"2023-03-03T01:00:10","date_gmt":"2023-03-03T00:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5397"},"modified":"2023-02-27T02:43:54","modified_gmt":"2023-02-27T01:43:54","slug":"friday-i-lent-hatred-is-overcome-by-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5397","title":{"rendered":"FRIDAY I LENT: hatred is overcome by love"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Go first and be reconciled with your brother. (Mt. 5:24)<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><em><strong>This time I admit that we must even redouble our gratitude for the marvels of this beautiful mission of Zicavo: we have to shed tears of joy.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><em><strong>From here. I see you surrounded by all these bloodthirsty men who become like lambs at your call, the daggers falling from their hands: they forgive and embrace each other. Oh how beautiful this is! And this moving response: now that their arms, loaded as they were to kill their enemies, now that these latter no longer existed, it was only right that they be shot off in your honour. Yes, that is superb!<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Letter of Eugene de Mazenod to Fr. Etienne Semeria in Corsica, 16 October 1841, EO IX n 741<\/em><\/h3>\n<h3><strong>REFLECTION<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h3>\u00a0Lord, though the human race is divided by dissension and discord, yet we know that by testing us you change our hearts to prepare them for reconciliation.<br \/>\nEven more, by your Spirit you move human hearts that enemies may speak to each other again, adversaries join hands, and peoples seek to meet together.<br \/>\nBy the working of your power\u00a0it comes about, O Lord, that hatred is overcome by love, revenge gives way to forgiveness, and discord is changed to mutual respect.<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: right;\">(Preface for Reconciliation II)<\/h3>\n<h3><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Go first and be reconciled with your brother. (Mt. 5:24) This time I admit that we must even redouble our gratitude for the marvels of this beautiful mission of Zicavo: we have to shed tears of joy. From here. I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5397\">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-5397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5397","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=5397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}