{"id":5613,"date":"2023-11-27T01:00:48","date_gmt":"2023-11-27T00:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5613"},"modified":"2023-11-23T07:33:09","modified_gmt":"2023-11-23T06:33:09","slug":"humility-is-absolutely-indispensable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5613","title":{"rendered":"HUMILITY IS ABSOLUTELY INDISPENSABLE"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Continuing his letter to the Bishop of Limoges, Eugene underlines that the preaching of the Oblates is to be to the poor and most abandoned and not to grandiose sermon series in parishes.<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><em><strong>I must even say about this matter that the Oblate Rule forbids them to preach Lenten and Advent sermons, and they need an express dispensation to accept that type of preaching which we want to leave to others, being satisfied on our part with the blessings that the Lord has never ceased to lavish on the humble ministry of missions for which the Oblates have been established. I beg you to look elsewhere than to the Oblates for Advent and Lenten preachers. <\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><em><strong>We must keep the Rule; our men must keep their feet on the ground, live in humility and not push themselves forward before people.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Letter to Bishop Buissas of Limoges, 24 October 1847, EO XIII n 118<\/em><\/h3>\n<h3><strong>REFLECTION<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h3>&#8220;For the Christian, humility is absolutely indispensable. Without it there can be no self-knowledge, no repentance, no faith and no salvation.&#8221;\u00a0 (Aiden Wilson Tozer)<\/h3>\n<h3><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Continuing his letter to the Bishop of Limoges, Eugene underlines that the preaching of the Oblates is to be to the poor and most abandoned and not to grandiose sermon series in parishes. I must even say about this matter &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5613\">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-5613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5613","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=5613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}