{"id":5634,"date":"2023-12-13T01:00:59","date_gmt":"2023-12-13T00:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5634"},"modified":"2023-12-05T03:44:00","modified_gmt":"2023-12-05T02:44:00","slug":"i-am-overwhelmed-with-joy-to-be-able-to-see-what-gods-grace-has-made-of-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5634","title":{"rendered":"I AM OVERWHELMED WITH JOY TO BE ABLE TO SEE WHAT GOD&#8217;S GRACE HAS MADE OF THEM."},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><em><strong>Departure of Fathers Lempfrit and Bernard and Father Arnaud for America. They will be joined in Lyon by Father Gaudet and the two lay brothers Triolle and Tisserand. Nothing could be more admirable or more lovable than these generous misssionaries. How kind they were in expressing their affection for me! They are worthy of all my love. I can say that I am overwhelmed with joy to be able to see what God&#8217;s grace has made of them.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Eugene de Mazenod&#8217;s Diary, 24 September 1847, EO XXI<\/em><\/h3>\n<h3><strong>REFLECTION<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h3>Each Oblate had to undergo many years of formation in order to imbibe and become a missionary disciple of Jesus the Savior according to the charism given to Eugene de Mazenod. Here we see the satisfaction of the father of the family as he contemplates God&#8217;s handiwork in the generosity of the new missionaries.<\/h3>\n<h3>&#8220;Being a father has been, without a doubt, my greatest source of achievement, pride and inspiration. Fatherhood has taught me about unconditional love, reinforced the importance of giving back and taught me how to be a better person.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0 (N. Jain)<\/h3>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Departure of Fathers Lempfrit and Bernard and Father Arnaud for America. They will be joined in Lyon by Father Gaudet and the two lay brothers Triolle and Tisserand. Nothing could be more admirable or more lovable than these generous misssionaries. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5634\">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-5634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5634","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=5634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5634\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}