{"id":5618,"date":"2023-12-01T01:00:07","date_gmt":"2023-12-01T00:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5618"},"modified":"2023-11-27T21:50:15","modified_gmt":"2023-11-27T20:50:15","slug":"lets-have-courage-then-and-put-our-confidence-in-the-lord","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5618","title":{"rendered":"LET\u2019S HAVE COURAGE THEN AND PUT OUR CONFIDENCE IN THE LORD"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Father Vincens was the Novice Master, preparing future Oblate missionaries. In the previous entry we saw Eugene&#8217;s letter to him announcing the acceptance of our first mission in Asia, which concludes with:<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><em><strong>Bishop Bettachini left with his heart full of joy; and unless the Propagation presents obstacles, which I hope will not happen, next month our first missionaries will leave with the Bishop to lay the first foundations of this great endeavor.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><em><strong>This departure will not prevent four missionaries from leaving for America, who will soon be followed by several others. You see that we need a lot of people to satisfy all these needs.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><em><strong>Let\u2019s have courage then and put our confidence in the Lord. The important point will always be to form good men; neglect nothing to that purpose.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Letter to Father Ambroise Vincens, 12 August 1847, EO X n 936<\/em><\/h3>\n<h3><strong>REFLECTION<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h3>&#8220;I have but one candle of life to burn, and I would rather burn it out in a land filled with darkness than in a land flooded with light.&#8221; (John Keith Falconer)<\/h3>\n<h3><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Father Vincens was the Novice Master, preparing future Oblate missionaries. In the previous entry we saw Eugene&#8217;s letter to him announcing the acceptance of our first mission in Asia, which concludes with: Bishop Bettachini left with his heart full of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5618\">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-5618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5618","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=5618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}