{"id":5835,"date":"2024-09-02T01:00:02","date_gmt":"2024-09-01T23:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5835"},"modified":"2024-09-01T23:45:07","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T21:45:07","slug":"all-i-ask-is-that-the-bishops-facilitate-the-means-of-maintaining-among-our-members-who-are-consecrated-to-their-service-the-spirit-of-their-holy-vocation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5835","title":{"rendered":"ALL I ASK IS THAT THE BISHOPS FACILITATE THE MEANS OF MAINTAINING AMONG OUR MEMBERS WHO ARE CONSECRATED TO THEIR SERVICE, THE SPIRIT OF THEIR HOLY VOCATION"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>The Bishop of Algiers, who gave the Oblates no encouragement, had accompanied Fr. Jean Baptiste Bellanger to one of the places of mission.<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><em><strong>I am delighted that you accompanied Bishop Pavy to Philippeville; by seeing you at close quarters he will understand still more readily that our missionaries are priests who are most devoted to the bishops and that their whole ambition lies in taking on their own shoulders some of the burden that lies so heavily on those of the Prelates&#8230; I am most anxious that the Bishop be fully aware of this since it is a basic principle of the Congregation&#8230; All I ask is that the bishops facilitate the means of maintaining among our members who are consecrated to their service, the spirit of their holy vocation, regularity and religious discipline.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Letter to Fr. Jean Baptiste Bellanger at Blida, Algeria, 10 November 1849, EO IV (Africa) n.10.<\/em><\/h3>\n<p><strong>RE<\/strong><strong>FLECTION<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>&#8220;<span lang=\"EN-GB\">The charism of Saint Eugene de Mazenod is a gift of the Spirit to the Church, and it radiates throughout the world.&#8221; (OMI Constitutions and Rules, R 37a)<\/span><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bishop of Algiers, who gave the Oblates no encouragement, had accompanied Fr. Jean Baptiste Bellanger to one of the places of mission. I am delighted that you accompanied Bishop Pavy to Philippeville; by seeing you at close quarters he &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5835\">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-5835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5835","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=5835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5835\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}