{"id":5758,"date":"2024-04-19T01:00:13","date_gmt":"2024-04-18T23:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5758"},"modified":"2024-04-18T02:47:54","modified_gmt":"2024-04-18T00:47:54","slug":"you-must-be-a-father-to-your-novices-you-must-be-close-to-them-in-their-difficulties-and-encourage-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5758","title":{"rendered":"YOU MUST BE A FATHER TO YOUR NOVICES, YOU MUST BE CLOSE TO THEM IN THEIR DIFFICULTIES AND ENCOURAGE THEM"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>\u00a0Eugene&#8217;s fatherly advice to the 27 year-old Master of Novices, Fr. Dorey:<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><em><strong>Even though you are as young as you are, you must, nevertheless, be a father to your novices, you must be close to them in their difficulties and encourage them, but not spoil them. They have to acquire habits of mortification, get used to leading a somewhat hard life, and not seek comforts because we are called to a ministry which does not include any. Insist much on mutual love, on helping one\u2019s neighbour, and especially one\u2019s brothers.<\/strong> <\/em><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Letter to Fr Eugene Dorey, Novice Master in Nancy, 15 October 1848, EO X n 990<\/em><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>REFLECTION<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Eugene had learnt the approach of being close to people from his own experience of guides being close to him in his times of need. As a youngster he had Don Bartolo Zinelli, as a seminarian he had Frs Duclaux and Emery, then his Uncle Fortun\u00e9 just to mention a few. It was the attitude he lived by.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system.&#8221; \u00a0(Sidney Hook)<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Eugene&#8217;s fatherly advice to the 27 year-old Master of Novices, Fr. Dorey: Even though you are as young as you are, you must, nevertheless, be a father to your novices, you must be close to them in their difficulties and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5758\">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-5758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5758","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=5758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5758\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}