{"id":5755,"date":"2024-04-16T01:00:52","date_gmt":"2024-04-15T23:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5755"},"modified":"2024-04-15T21:54:52","modified_gmt":"2024-04-15T19:54:52","slug":"i-recommend-kindness-in-your-leadership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5755","title":{"rendered":"I RECOMMEND KINDNESS IN YOUR LEADERSHIP"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>The demanding Fr Dassy was superior of a community of young priests. The novice master, Eugene Dorey was 27 and the members of the missionary community were Francois Xavier Michelier who was 25, C\u00e9sar Depetro who was 24. All three had been ordained priests for approximately one year. Dassy had to be the mentor who initiated them into ministry.<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><em><strong>I approve very strongly that you be severe for sermon composition by Father Depetro, and that you do not allow him to compromise himself in the pulpits of Nancy. However, even before he attains the degree of perfection that you aim for, I would like you to try him out in some community or some village, lest he be discouraged, lest he be bored. I would say the same thing for Father Michelier whom Father Tempier did his very best to restrain. He is going gladly to Nancy, convinced that at first he is to be edified in such a well-run community, but also that you will help him in his work which he keenly desires to do well.<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong>I recommend kindness in your leadership. Do not tire your people, be charitable and patient. Be firm when you must, but never be hard.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 40px; text-align: right;\"><em>Letter to Fr Toussaint Dassy, 14 October 1848, EO X n 989<\/em><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 40px; text-align: left;\"><strong>REFLECTION<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cA coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment.\u201d (John Wooden)<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The demanding Fr Dassy was superior of a community of young priests. The novice master, Eugene Dorey was 27 and the members of the missionary community were Francois Xavier Michelier who was 25, C\u00e9sar Depetro who was 24. All three &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5755\">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-5755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5755","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=5755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5755\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}