{"id":5562,"date":"2023-09-22T01:00:15","date_gmt":"2023-09-21T23:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5562"},"modified":"2023-09-19T20:59:56","modified_gmt":"2023-09-19T18:59:56","slug":"they-will-be-reasonable-when-god-shows-us-what-we-must-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5562","title":{"rendered":"THEY WILL BE REASONABLE WHEN GOD SHOWS US WHAT WE MUST DO"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>As the Oblate mission was rapidly expanding, so was the need for missionaries. Father Leonard&#8217;s recruiting campaign was bringing in new Oblates who were enthusiastic. Eugene was respectful of their wishes as to where to go for ministry: in France or in the foreign missions. He was also confident that they would be generous in responding to whichever were the greatest needs.<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><em><strong>Father Leonard\u2019s campaign has procured a considerable number of recruits who ask to be sent to evangelize the indigenous peoples. I have not undertaken never to employ them in other ministries. No doubt what I will take into consideration is mostly their own liking but they will be reasonable when God shows us what we must do for His greater glory.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Letter to Fr Eugene Guigues in Canada, 20 July 1847, EO I n 86<\/em><\/h3>\n<h3><strong>REFLECTION<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h3>These words of Ben Carson,&#8221;I think one of the keys to leadership is recognizing that everybody has gifts and talents. A good leader will learn how to harness those gifts toward the same goal&#8221; certainly apply to Eugene&#8217;s leadership style. May generosity to share our talents be a characteristic of our Mazenodian Family.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the Oblate mission was rapidly expanding, so was the need for missionaries. Father Leonard&#8217;s recruiting campaign was bringing in new Oblates who were enthusiastic. Eugene was respectful of their wishes as to where to go for ministry: in France &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5562\">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-5562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5562","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=5562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5562\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}