{"id":5651,"date":"2024-01-11T01:00:36","date_gmt":"2024-01-11T00:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5651"},"modified":"2023-12-16T04:07:41","modified_gmt":"2023-12-16T03:07:41","slug":"each-locomotive-stopped-in-front-of-the-altar-and-was-blessed-by-the-bishop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5651","title":{"rendered":"EACH LOCOMOTIVE STOPPED IN FRONT OF THE ALTAR AND WAS BLESSED BY THE BISHOP"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>The biographer, Rey, continues his description of Bishop Eugene&#8217;s historic blessing of the first railway station in Marseilles in 1847.<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><em>The Bishop then blessed the water according to the Pontifical ritual, and said the prayers for the blessing of the locomotives&#8230;\u00a0 He then descended in his cope and mitre to the rails, over which ten locomotives decorated with flags and foliage passed majestically, or should we say in small strides, with engineers and mechanics standing on them. Each engine stopped in front of the altar, was blessed by the Bishop, then resumed its march and was replaced by the next. When the parade was over, the ten locomotives all took up their stride at once, and soon disappeared into the distance, leaving behind them a long plume of smoke. At this point, Mgr de Mazenod, back in front of the altar, intoned the Te Deum, while the music, the sound of the cannon and the cheers of the multitude lining the rooftops gave this moment of the ceremony a grandeur difficult to describe. Monseigneur withdrew only after giving the pontifical blessing.<\/em><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: right;\">Rey II p 264-265<\/h3>\n<h3><strong>REFLECTION<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h3>&#8220;There is no work, however vile or sordid, that does not sparkle before God.&#8221; (John Calvin)<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The biographer, Rey, continues his description of Bishop Eugene&#8217;s historic blessing of the first railway station in Marseilles in 1847. The Bishop then blessed the water according to the Pontifical ritual, and said the prayers for the blessing of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5651\">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-5651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5651","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=5651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5651\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}