{"id":5814,"date":"2024-08-12T01:00:41","date_gmt":"2024-08-11T23:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5814"},"modified":"2024-07-23T08:23:50","modified_gmt":"2024-07-23T06:23:50","slug":"aid-needed-not-to-build-beautiful-churches-but-to-construct-huts-where-they-can-shelter-themselves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5814","title":{"rendered":"AID NEEDED NOT TO BUILD BEAUTIFUL CHURCHES BUT TO CONSTRUCT HUTS WHERE THEY CAN SHELTER THEMSELVES"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>The Oblate missionaries in Oregon were doing first evangelization and thus had no income and infrastrucure. They relied on grants from the Society of the Propagation of the Faith, to whom Eugene wrote:<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><em><strong>These missionaries do not appeal to your aid, they say, to construct beautiful churches as in the United States, but to construct huts where they can shelter themselves from the inclemency of the seasons and to purchase the poor food to support their efforts and not die of hunger. They had already penetrated among the tribes and reached the point of gathering the latter around them when the tragic war of the Americans came to dash their hopes. When they wrote to me it was their intention to push deeper into the hinterland, beyond the reach of the combatants, to exercise their most worthy ministry with fewer obstacles. May God protect them from other sorts of dangers.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Letter to the Members of the Central Council of the Propagation of the Faith, 24 October 1848, EO V n 115<\/em><\/h3>\n<h3><strong>REFLECTION<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cWithout the assurance of food, clothing and shelter, unless you\u2019re prepared to die, there\u2019s no other way but to work.\u201d (Tatsuhiko Takimoto)<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Oblate missionaries in Oregon were doing first evangelization and thus had no income and infrastrucure. They relied on grants from the Society of the Propagation of the Faith, to whom Eugene wrote: These missionaries do not appeal to your &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5814\">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-5814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5814","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=5814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5814\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}