{"id":5819,"date":"2024-08-13T01:00:31","date_gmt":"2024-08-12T23:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5819"},"modified":"2024-08-11T21:42:00","modified_gmt":"2024-08-11T19:42:00","slug":"accent-reduction-as-a-missionary-responsibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5819","title":{"rendered":"ACCENT REDUCTION AS A MISSIONARY RESPONSIBILITY"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><em><strong>I take occasion in speaking of this to recommend that you greatly insist on our Canadian Fathers, correcting their accent and taking as a model the pronunciation of the English with whom they live. They are young enough to succeed in this if they willingly pay attention to this matter. How many of our people from the provinces have corrected their accent while living at Paris.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Letter to Bp. Bruno Guigues, 15 September 1848, EO I n 102.<\/em><\/h3>\n<h3>The zeal of the Missionary Oblates knew no limits. Yet it was not sufficient to dive headlong into a missionary situation &#8211; one had to be prepared and the learning of the language of the people was essential. Here Eugene adds the important element that is was not sufficient to know the grammar and vocabulary of a language, but that the missionaries had to learn the pronunciation of the language as it was used by the local population.<\/h3>\n<h3><strong>REFLECTION<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h3>We Oblates pride ourselves on &#8220;being close to the people.&#8221; In these days of international multi-cultural communities we prove that we have a genuine love and concern for the people we minister to when we take the trouble to immerse ourselves in their cultural expressions to the best of our abilities. People judge us according to our goodwill when we show that we are trying our best.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I take occasion in speaking of this to recommend that you greatly insist on our Canadian Fathers, correcting their accent and taking as a model the pronunciation of the English with whom they live. They are young enough to succeed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5819\">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-5819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5819","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=5819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}