{"id":5614,"date":"2023-11-28T01:00:04","date_gmt":"2023-11-28T00:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5614"},"modified":"2023-11-23T07:40:55","modified_gmt":"2023-11-23T06:40:55","slug":"we-shall-finally-see-who-has-brought-the-greater-number-of-souls-to-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5614","title":{"rendered":"WE SHALL FINALLY SEE WHO HAS BROUGHT THE GREATER NUMBER OF SOULS TO GOD"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>From their first sermons in Limoges, the style of the Oblates was not understood and appreciated by the clergy and others. Fr Court\u00e8s did not allow himself to be disheartened and responded well to the critical comments. Eugene commended him:<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><em><strong>Bravo, my dear Court\u00e8s. That is the way to answer all these pretentious remarks from men who judge everything by their own measure and who do not know how to recognize that true merit can be found in a sphere other than that of their own rotation.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><em><strong>Let us spurn their prejudices and go at our own rate. We shall finally see who has brought the greater number of souls to God, those academics they seek after, or apostolic men who preach as they should to instruct and convert.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Letter to Fr Hippolyte Court\u00e8s in Limoges, 30 December 1847, EO X n 961<\/em><\/h3>\n<h3><strong>REFLECTION<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h3>&#8220;You can&#8217;t let praise or criticism get to you. It&#8217;s a weakness to get caught up in either one.&#8221;\u00a0 (J. Wooden)<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From their first sermons in Limoges, the style of the Oblates was not understood and appreciated by the clergy and others. Fr Court\u00e8s did not allow himself to be disheartened and responded well to the critical comments. Eugene commended him: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5614\">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-5614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5614","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=5614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}