{"id":5697,"date":"2024-02-15T02:03:43","date_gmt":"2024-02-15T01:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5697"},"modified":"2024-02-15T02:03:43","modified_gmt":"2024-02-15T01:03:43","slug":"i-went-to-vote-for-the-first-time-since-i-have-been-bishop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5697","title":{"rendered":"I WENT TO VOTE FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE I HAVE BEEN BISHOP"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><em><strong>April 23: Holy day of Easter. General elections. No episcopal office nor High Mass. I went to vote for the first time since I have been bishop.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Eugene de Mazenod&#8217;s Diary, 23 April 1848, EO XXI<\/em><\/h3>\n<h3>Despite the progressive euphoria of the Republican Party, the more influential classes had swung to the right and the conservative Party of Order won an overwhelming victory. The majority of the clergy in France had also supported this swing, including Bishop Eugene. Louis Napoleon, nephew of Napoleon I, became the President of the Second Republic.<\/h3>\n<h3><strong>REFLECTION<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h3>&#8220;When you enter the land the Lord your God is giving you and have taken possession of it and settled in it, and you say, &#8216;Let us set a king over us like all the nations around us,&#8217; be sure to appoint over you a king the Lord your God chooses. (Deuteronomy 17:14 -15)<\/h3>\n<h3>&#8220;Organising free and fair elections is more important than the result itself.&#8221; (Fatos Nano)<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 23: Holy day of Easter. General elections. No episcopal office nor High Mass. I went to vote for the first time since I have been bishop. Eugene de Mazenod&#8217;s Diary, 23 April 1848, EO XXI Despite the progressive euphoria &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5697\">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-5697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5697","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=5697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}