{"id":5786,"date":"2024-06-24T01:00:39","date_gmt":"2024-06-23T23:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5786"},"modified":"2024-06-22T18:52:57","modified_gmt":"2024-06-22T16:52:57","slug":"i-never-lost-hope-i-had-unlimited-confidence-in-the-goodness-of-god-and-in-the-protection-of-the-holy-virgin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5786","title":{"rendered":"I NEVER LOST HOPE. I HAD UNLIMITED CONFIDENCE IN THE GOODNESS OF GOD AND IN THE PROTECTION OF THE HOLY VIRGIN"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Fr.\u00a0 Jean-Pierre Bernard (24 years old) had been ordained a priest by Bishop de Mazenod in September 1847, and within days had left for Canada. On the same day Fr. Augustin Gaudet had been ordained and the two had travelled together to Canada. Eugene wrote to Gaudet:<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><em><strong>The good Father Bernard who had so well endured the ocean crossing, being so strong and well constituted, I saw him at death&#8217;s door; what grief I felt! But I never lost hope. I had unlimited confidence in the goodness of God and in the protection of the Holy Virgin<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Letter to Fr. Gaudet in Montreal, 29 April 1848, EO I n 94<\/em><\/h3>\n<h3><strong>REFLECTION<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h3>God heard these prayers and Jean-Pierre was restored to health and was to be a zealous missionary in Canada, USA, and France for the next 37 years.<\/h3>\n<h3>The circumstances we ask God to CHANGE are often the circumstances God is using to CHANGE US. (Mark Batterson)<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fr.\u00a0 Jean-Pierre Bernard (24 years old) had been ordained a priest by Bishop de Mazenod in September 1847, and within days had left for Canada. On the same day Fr. Augustin Gaudet had been ordained and the two had travelled &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5786\">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,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5786","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=5786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}