{"id":5547,"date":"2023-09-06T01:00:17","date_gmt":"2023-09-05T23:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5547"},"modified":"2023-09-03T00:40:58","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T22:40:58","slug":"the-consolations-of-a-pastor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5547","title":{"rendered":"THE CONSOLATIONS OF A PASTOR"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><\/h3>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3>Marseilles, as an important port city, was the home to several military establishments. Bishop Eugene had just confirmed 30 soldiers and First Communion to six of them. His joy and pastoral satisfaction in expressed in his diary entry.<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><em><strong>April 22: [Confirmation of soldiers.] No one could be more edifying than these good people are, nor more attentive to the paternal words I spoke to them.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><em><strong>This is another of my consolations; they multiply and follow one another, and they are certainly heartfelt.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Eugene de Mazenod\u2019s Diary, 22 April 1847, EO XXI<\/em><\/h3>\n<h3><strong>REFLECTION<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h3>When Eugene was appointed Bishop of Marseilles in 1837, he had undertaken to &#8220;attach myself to this people as a father to his children&#8221; (EO XV n 185). Ten years later we glimpse this fatherly attachment, and the joy and consolation he experiences when he ministers to his flock.<\/h3>\n<h3>His words echo those of St Paul: &#8221; We also constantly give thanks to God for this, that when you received the word of God that you heard from us you accepted it not as a human word but as what it really is, God\u2019s word, which is also at work in you believers.&#8221; (I Thessalonians 2:13)<\/h3>\n<h3>An invitation for us to give thanks today for those whose ministry has made a difference to our faith life.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marseilles, as an important port city, was the home to several military establishments. Bishop Eugene had just confirmed 30 soldiers and First Communion to six of them. His joy and pastoral satisfaction in expressed in his diary entry. April 22: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5547\">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-5547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5547","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=5547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}