{"id":5399,"date":"2023-03-05T01:00:39","date_gmt":"2023-03-05T00:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5399"},"modified":"2023-02-27T03:32:42","modified_gmt":"2023-02-27T02:32:42","slug":"sunday-ii-lent-the-strength-that-comes-from-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5399","title":{"rendered":"SUNDAY II LENT: the strength that comes from God"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Bear your share of hardship for the gospel\u00a0with the strength that comes from God. (2 Tm 1:8)<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><em><strong>How happy they are to be able to sacrifice themselves for their brothers whom they are sanctifying, saving, placing in glory, at the price of their lives, like our Divine Master who died for the salvation of people! How admirable they are! But also, how fortunate, these dear martyrs of love! What a beautiful page in the history of our Congregation!<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Letter of Eugene de Mazenod to Fr. Bruno Guigues \u00a0describing \u00a0the heroic ministry of the Oblates during the cholera epidemic, 1 August 1835,\u00a0EO VIII n 529<\/em><\/h3>\n<h3><strong>REFLECTION<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h3>\u00a0Lord Jesus, give me the strength to stick it out over the long haul\u2014not the grim strength of gritting my teeth but the glory-strength God gives. It is strength that endures the unendurable and spills over into joy, thanking the Father who makes me strong enough to take part in everything bright and beautiful that he has for me. Jesus, give me strength in my weakness. Amen.<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: right;\">\u00a0Wendy van Eyck<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bear your share of hardship for the gospel\u00a0with the strength that comes from God. (2 Tm 1:8) How happy they are to be able to sacrifice themselves for their brothers whom they are sanctifying, saving, placing in glory, at the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5399\">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-5399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5399","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=5399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}