{"id":5844,"date":"2024-09-11T01:00:17","date_gmt":"2024-09-10T23:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5844"},"modified":"2024-09-08T22:55:25","modified_gmt":"2024-09-08T20:55:25","slug":"your-acceptance-of-hardships-and-the-conviction-of-the-merit-that-you-will-derive-from-it-in-gods-eyes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5844","title":{"rendered":"YOUR ACCEPTANCE OF HARDSHIPS AND THE CONVICTION OF THE MERIT THAT YOU WILL DERIVE FROM IT IN GOD\u2019S EYES"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><em><strong>Oh no! my dear friend, you could not make your letters long enough nor enter into too many details on the subject of your painfully difficult mission. You cannot imagine the anxiety which I feel about you all. Not to receive news from you for eight months is truly a torment for my heart.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><em><strong>To know you are deprived of so many things and badly appreciated by those who should kiss your footsteps is something beyond my endurance. It is a grief only softened by the knowledge you give me of your acceptance and the conviction of the merit that you will derive from it in God\u2019s eyes.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Letter to Fr. Pascal Ricard in Oregon, 10 February 1849, EO I n 110<\/em><\/h3>\n<h3><strong>REFLECTION<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h3>&#8220;Hardships can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life&#8217;s search for love and wisdom.&#8221; (Rumi)<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh no! my dear friend, you could not make your letters long enough nor enter into too many details on the subject of your painfully difficult mission. You cannot imagine the anxiety which I feel about you all. Not to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5844\">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-5844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5844","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=5844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}