{"id":5405,"date":"2023-03-10T01:00:46","date_gmt":"2023-03-10T00:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5405"},"modified":"2023-03-02T05:50:06","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T04:50:06","slug":"friday-ii-lent-the-happy-outcome-of-the-steps-we-took","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5405","title":{"rendered":"FRIDAY II LENT: the happy outcome of the steps we took"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">&#8220;The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone; by the Lord has this been done, and it is wonderful in our eyes.&#8221; \u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">(Mt.21:42)<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3>In the 1820&#8217;s the policy of the Vatican was not to grant official recognition and approval to the countless new religious congregations that were being founded after the Revolution in France. Eugene was thus overwhelmed when the Pope ignored this and gave the Missionary Oblates official approbation. He wrote to the Oblates:<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><em><strong>Do you realise that nothing ever has been seen so astonishing as this? Those whose duty it is to deal with such matters are the first to make this remark and to be all the more surprised with the happy outcome of the steps we took, all of them inspired, directed, blessed by God, inasmuch as the policy was no longer to do anything of the sort and I, being here and pursuing my endeavor with the help of the Master of hearts, have seen many fail and not obtain what they asked for.\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Eugene de Mazenod to his Oblate Family, 18 February 1826, EO VII, n. 226 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/h3>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3>O Lord, remind me to be strong and steadfast; to have no fear or dread of others, for it is you, my God, who marches with me; God will never fail me or forsake me. (cf. Dt. 31:6)<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone; by the Lord has this been done, and it is wonderful in our eyes.&#8221; \u00a0(Mt.21:42) In the 1820&#8217;s the policy of the Vatican was not to grant official recognition and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5405\">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-5405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5405","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=5405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}