{"id":5563,"date":"2023-09-25T01:00:41","date_gmt":"2023-09-24T23:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5563"},"modified":"2023-09-19T21:11:44","modified_gmt":"2023-09-19T19:11:44","slug":"there-is-no-virtue-in-saying-all-that-one-thinks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5563","title":{"rendered":"THERE IS NO VIRTUE IN SAYING ALL THAT ONE THINKS"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Father Telmon was a gifted person with an amazing missionary zeal and loads of energy &#8211; but, was also impetuous and didn&#8217;t always think before he spoke. At times this led to people being offended.<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><em><strong>Father Telmon must moderate his character. He is forty, has much talent and zeal. Could he possibly spoil so many good qualities by lack of restraint? Let him convince himself once for all that there is no virtue in saying all that one thinks. There are things better left unsaid even though one would believe oneself a hundred times right. There are so many ways of winning people over. One must never fly off the handle. All is over when wounds have been inflicted. I heard that he alienated the Coadjutor Bishop by a letter he wrote to him.<\/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>&#8220;Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0 Carl Jung<\/h3>\n<h3><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Father Telmon was a gifted person with an amazing missionary zeal and loads of energy &#8211; but, was also impetuous and didn&#8217;t always think before he spoke. At times this led to people being offended. Father Telmon must moderate his &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5563\">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,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5563","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=5563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5563\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}