{"id":5694,"date":"2024-02-12T01:48:08","date_gmt":"2024-02-12T00:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5694"},"modified":"2024-02-12T01:48:08","modified_gmt":"2024-02-12T00:48:08","slug":"prayer-must-be-converted-into-civic-action-at-the-ballot-box","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5694","title":{"rendered":"PRAYER MUST BE CONVERTED INTO CIVIC ACTION AT THE BALLOT BOX"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>We continue to read Bishop Eugene&#8217;s Pastoral Letter to the people of Marseilles on the forthcoming elections:<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><em><strong>You will therefore strive, our dear brothers, to implore heaven by your most fervent supplications, but you will not restrict yourselves to expressing a feeling of piety and trust at the foot of the altars, you will also not neglect the obligations of another kind which are imposed on you in the name of France; you will exercise the legal action which belongs to you, and you will cast your vote in the ballot box, from which, humanly speaking, the salvation of the fatherland must emerge.<\/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>\u201cA share in the sovereignty of the state, which is exercised by the citizens at large, in voting at elections is one of the most important rights of the subject, and in a republic ought to stand foremost in the estimation of the law.\u201d (Thomas Jefferson)<\/h3>\n<h3><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We continue to read Bishop Eugene&#8217;s Pastoral Letter to the people of Marseilles on the forthcoming elections: You will therefore strive, our dear brothers, to implore heaven by your most fervent supplications, but you will not restrict yourselves to expressing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5694\">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-5694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5694","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=5694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5694\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}