{"id":5518,"date":"2023-08-10T01:00:57","date_gmt":"2023-08-09T23:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5518"},"modified":"2023-08-04T02:17:41","modified_gmt":"2023-08-04T00:17:41","slug":"by-virtue-of-the-admirable-union-of-charity-which-makes-all-of-us-but-one-heart-and-one-soul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5518","title":{"rendered":"BY VIRTUE OF THE ADMIRABLE UNION OF CHARITY WHICH MAKES ALL OF US BUT ONE HEART AND ONE SOUL"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>With Canadian men becoming Missionary Oblates, Eugene was not able to get to know them. Despite this, he regarded them as his sons in exactly the same manner as the Oblates he knew in France. His letters show his strong sense of spiritual paternity as Founder of the Mazenodian missionary family, as this one to Fr Aubert does:<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><em><strong>Reverting to the subject of Brother Tach\u00e9 whom I have not yet come to know, I await from him a little letter showing me his handwriting for in lieu of the person, it is something to see some lines traced by the hand of one we cannot see, but whom we already love by virtue of the admirable union of charity which makes all of us but one heart and one soul. I enjoin you earnestly, my dear son, to express to him all the sentiments which you know me to have for the children the good God has given me.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Letter to Fr Pierre Aubert in St Boniface Canada, 21 February 1846, EO I n 61<\/em><\/h3>\n<h3><strong>REFLECTION<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h3>&#8220;It is not flesh and blood, that makes us fathers and children&#8221; \u00a0(Friedrich Schiller)<\/h3>\n<h3>Today, we are also the children that the good God has given to Eugene, who is our teacher and intercessor in the fullness of the Kingdom of God.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Canadian men becoming Missionary Oblates, Eugene was not able to get to know them. Despite this, he regarded them as his sons in exactly the same manner as the Oblates he knew in France. His letters show his strong &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5518\">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-5518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5518","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=5518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}