{"id":5687,"date":"2024-02-09T01:00:18","date_gmt":"2024-02-09T00:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5687"},"modified":"2024-01-31T11:38:08","modified_gmt":"2024-01-31T10:38:08","slug":"justice-to-inspire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5687","title":{"rendered":"JUSTICE TO INSPIRE"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><em><strong>Religion, whose interests are above those of this world, as much as the soul is above the body, also shows us its sacred cause closely linked to that of the country&#8230;<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><em><strong>May the Lord grant his Church that justice may inspire all the resolutions to which she will be subject! Then, in her contact with new institutions, or in her confident attitude towards them, she will be able to communicate to them something of that vital virtue which springs from her bosom. Then, what is sick in society will be healed, and divine approval will be granted to what must last. Then, but only then, will God&#8217;s eyes rest with complacency on the work of His mercy, as they once did when He saw that the work of His creative word was good, &#8220;and God saw that it was good&#8221;\u00bb,(Gen 1:10), and the heavenly blessing will descend powerful and unceasing to make peace reign among us in strength, as well as abundance of prosperity under the protection of our laws: &#8221; Peace be within your walls and security within your towers.&#8221; <\/strong><\/em>(Ed Psalm 122:7)<em><strong>!<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Pastoral letter from the Bishop of Marseilles, on the occasion of the general elections and the forthcoming opening of the National Assembly, March 20, 1848<\/em><\/h3>\n<h3><strong>REFLECTION<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h3>In a world that might say one vote doesn\u2019t matter\u2026it does matter because each person is of infinite worth and value to God\u2026 Your vote is a declaration of importance as a person and a citizen.\u201d (Dr. James Dobson)<\/h3>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Religion, whose interests are above those of this world, as much as the soul is above the body, also shows us its sacred cause closely linked to that of the country&#8230; May the Lord grant his Church that justice may &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5687\">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-5687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5687","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=5687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}