{"id":5467,"date":"2023-05-02T00:05:01","date_gmt":"2023-05-01T22:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5467"},"modified":"2023-05-02T00:52:54","modified_gmt":"2023-05-01T22:52:54","slug":"pastoral-care-of-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5467","title":{"rendered":"PASTORAL CARE OF WORKERS"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>The city of Marseilles was experiencing the prosperity of an industrial revolution and its Bishop was concerned about the welfare of the workers of all ages. In his Pastoral Letter he referred to the adult men.<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><em><strong>We are also hopeful about some gatherings of workers, either because a varied and useful instruction brings them closer and closer to the altars of the Lord, or because it attracts them in the evening to the same bench where their young son sits during the day to receive the lessons of the Brothers of the Christian Schools.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Pastoral letter of Bishop de Mazenod to the Diocese of Marseilles for Lent 1847<\/em><\/h3>\n<h3>One of the many examples of this was the Conference of Saint Joseph, which numbered over a thousand men in 1847. They gathered each Sunday to pray and to listen to a catechetical conference. On the first Sunday of each month there was a Mass offered for them at which many received communion.<\/h3>\n<h3>Convinced of their need for education. Bishop Eugene encouraged them to attend night classes at the schools attended by their sons in the day.<\/h3>\n<h3><strong>REFLECTION<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h3>&#8220;Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed. You cannot un-educate the person who has learned to read. You cannot humiliate the person who feels pride. You cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore.&#8221;<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: right;\">Cesar Chavez<\/h3>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The city of Marseilles was experiencing the prosperity of an industrial revolution and its Bishop was concerned about the welfare of the workers of all ages. In his Pastoral Letter he referred to the adult men. We are also hopeful &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5467\">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-5467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5467","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=5467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}