{"id":5457,"date":"2023-04-20T01:00:31","date_gmt":"2023-04-19T23:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5457"},"modified":"2023-04-17T03:51:02","modified_gmt":"2023-04-17T01:51:02","slug":"believing-in-the-power-of-a-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5457","title":{"rendered":"BELIEVING IN THE POWER OF A DREAM"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Two years after or foundation in Aix en Provence, Eugene had described his dream for his missionary family:<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><em><strong>and even though, because of their present small number and the more urgent needs of the people around them, they have to limit the scope of their zeal, for the time being, to the poor of our countryside and others,<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><em><strong>their ambition should, in its holy aspirations, embrace the vast expanse of the whole earth<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>1818 Rule, Part One, Chapter One. The ends of the Institute, \u00a73. Nota Bene.\u00a0<\/em><em>Missions, 78 (1951) p. 15<\/em><\/h3>\n<h3>Now, 30 years later, with the departure of the Missionaries for the United States, he exclaims as the fulfilment of his dream unfolds:<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><em><strong>After they will have arrived at their destination, our family will be announcing Jesus Christ from one sea to the other in immense territories which have never yet known him. What an apostolate!<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Letter to Fr Jean Baudrand in Bytown, Canada, 21 January 1847, EO I n 77<\/em><\/h3>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3>&#8220;I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.&#8221; (Vincent Van Gogh)<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two years after or foundation in Aix en Provence, Eugene had described his dream for his missionary family: and even though, because of their present small number and the more urgent needs of the people around them, they have to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5457\">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,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5457","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=5457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}