{"id":5750,"date":"2024-04-11T01:00:36","date_gmt":"2024-04-10T23:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5750"},"modified":"2024-04-08T02:30:49","modified_gmt":"2024-04-08T00:30:49","slug":"and-now-algeria-is-calling-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5750","title":{"rendered":"AND NOW ALGERIA IS CALLING US!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>As more and more invitations for the foreign missions were being offered, more Oblate missionaries were needed. Among Father Dassy\u2019s preaching occupations was a retreat he had given to a group of young men in the hope of awakening a response.<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><em><strong>I gladly saw you give the retreat exercises at Pont-\u00e0-Mousson. I hope that the fruits of salvation it brought these young men will bring some of them to us. We have such a large field before us!<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><em><strong>And now Algeria is calling us! This mission has fallen to us since you know that right from the conquest I wrote to the Chief Chaplains and to the Prince de Polignac, offering our services which would then have been accepted except for the upheaval that broke at that same time&#8230;<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Letter to Fr Toussaint Dassy, 18 September 1848, EO X n 987<\/em><\/h3>\n<h3>Eugene refers to the French conquest of Algeria on July 4, 1830 and to the July 1830 revolution. Several Oblates had expressed a wish to be sent there as missionaries, but this was to happen only 18 years later.<\/h3>\n<h3><strong>REFLECTION<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h3>&#8220;The biggest challenge facing a missionary today is to forget himself and lose himself in the work.&#8221; (Gordon B. Hinckley)<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As more and more invitations for the foreign missions were being offered, more Oblate missionaries were needed. Among Father Dassy\u2019s preaching occupations was a retreat he had given to a group of young men in the hope of awakening a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5750\">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-5750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5750","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=5750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5750\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}