{"id":5443,"date":"2023-04-06T01:00:52","date_gmt":"2023-04-05T23:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5443"},"modified":"2023-04-01T21:50:28","modified_gmt":"2023-04-01T19:50:28","slug":"holy-thursday-not-what-i-want-but-what-you-want","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5443","title":{"rendered":"HOLY THURSDAY: not what I want, but what You want"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">&#8220;I have given you a model to follow,\u00a0so that as I have done for you, you should also do.&#8221; <\/span><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">John 13:15<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3>For Saint Eugene, Holy Thursday marked two important events: his first communion and his private vow of saying \u201cyes\u201d to God on this night when Christians keep watch with Jesus in the garden of Gethsemane and Jesus said \u201cyes\u201d.<\/h3>\n<h3>This is how Eugene and his closest Oblate companion, Henri Tempier, spent that night in 1816:<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><em><strong>Briefly put. Father Tempier and I felt that we should not delay any longer, and on Holy Thursday (April 11, 1816), when both of us had taken our place under the structure of the beautiful repository we had erected over the main altar of the Mission church, in the night of that holy day, we pronounced our vows with an indescribable joy. We enjoyed our happiness throughout this beautiful night, in the presence of Our Lord.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Eugene de Mazenod&#8217;s Memoires, Rambert I, p. 187<\/em><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I have given you a model to follow,\u00a0so that as I have done for you, you should also do.&#8221; John 13:15 For Saint Eugene, Holy Thursday marked two important events: his first communion and his private vow of saying \u201cyes\u201d &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5443\">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-5443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5443","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=5443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}