{"id":5424,"date":"2023-03-24T01:00:28","date_gmt":"2023-03-24T00:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5424"},"modified":"2023-03-15T02:40:06","modified_gmt":"2023-03-15T01:40:06","slug":"friday-iv-lent-let-me-be-surprised-by-the-wonder-of-your-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5424","title":{"rendered":"FRIDAY IV LENT: let me be surprised by the wonder of your love"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">When the Christ comes, no one will know where he is from. (John 7:27)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3>On his return to Aix as a new priest, Father Eugene was conscious of his mission to lead people to know who Jesus Christ was.<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><em><strong>My chief occupation will be to love him, my chief concern to make him loved. To this I will bend all my efforts, time, strength, and when after much toil I have succeeded in winning but a single act of love towards so good a Master, I will rightly consider myself very well paid. <\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 80px; text-align: right;\"><em>Eugene de Mazenod&#8217;s retreat notes, December 1812, EO XV n. 109\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/h3>\n<h3><strong>REFLECTION<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h3>Father ever ancient, ever new, give me the grace to see you with new eyes and to be surprised once again by the wonder of your love and work in my life.<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: right;\">-Author unknown<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the Christ comes, no one will know where he is from. (John 7:27)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 On his return to Aix as a new priest, Father Eugene was conscious of his mission to lead people to know who Jesus Christ was. My &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5424\">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-5424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5424","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=5424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}