{"id":5469,"date":"2023-05-04T01:00:49","date_gmt":"2023-05-03T23:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5469"},"modified":"2023-05-01T03:23:20","modified_gmt":"2023-05-01T01:23:20","slug":"religious-sisters-nothing-held-back-these-heroes-of-the-gospel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5469","title":{"rendered":"RELIGIOUS SISTERS: NOTHING HELD BACK THESE HEROES OF THE GOSPEL"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Bishop Eugene&#8217;s pastoral letter continues to extol the missionary marvels worked by the religious Sisters. Here he focuses on the many Sisters who left France to go to mission countries across the oceans. A huge number of them left from the harbor of Marseilles.<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><strong><em>But how many of them are not admirably multiplied in our days, to go and make the voice of the apostles resound to the ends of the earth? God has spoken to their hearts and they have risen up more numerous than ever, and each one of them has said with joy: Lord, here I am, I will go wherever you send me; then on the faith of their divine vocation&#8230; they went where obedience sent them; they renounced everything, their homeland, their loved ones, all the hopes of the world, to devote themselves unreservedly to the salvation of men whom they did not know, they devoted themselves for them to every kind of hardship and a thousand perils.<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><strong><em>Nothing held back these heroes of the Gospel.<\/em><\/strong><\/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><strong>REFLECTION<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h3>&#8220;What I try to tell young people is that if you come together with a mission, and its grounded with love and a sense of community, you can make the impossible possible.&#8221;<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: right;\">John Lewis<\/h3>\n<h3><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bishop Eugene&#8217;s pastoral letter continues to extol the missionary marvels worked by the religious Sisters. Here he focuses on the many Sisters who left France to go to mission countries across the oceans. A huge number of them left from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5469\">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-5469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5469","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=5469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}