{"id":5849,"date":"2024-09-18T01:00:36","date_gmt":"2024-09-17T23:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5849"},"modified":"2024-09-17T02:40:41","modified_gmt":"2024-09-17T00:40:41","slug":"i-can-only-be-consumed-with-pain-in-seeing-you-walk-a-path-so-different-from-that-which-i-have-shown-you-and-which-alone-leads-to-salvation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5849","title":{"rendered":"I CAN ONLY BE CONSUMED WITH PAIN IN SEEING YOU WALK A PATH SO DIFFERENT FROM THAT WHICH I HAVE SHOWN YOU AND WHICH ALONE LEADS TO SALVATION"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><em><strong>I see by your letters that in Canada all trace of the first notions of the religious state has been lost&#8230;. It is time to call a halt for the disorder has gone too far.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><em><strong>Such are the sorrows which my own children have given me to drink; the sword they thrust, each in his own fashion, pierces my breast ever more deeply, for I can only be consumed with pain in seeing you walk a path so different from that which I have shown you and which alone leads to salvation.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><em><strong>Those who know me ought to understand how painful it is for me to express such sentiments which I would willingly stifle in my heart if the authoritative duty of my office did not oblige me to manifest them. May the good God bless you.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Letter to Fr. Adrien Telmon in Canada, August 1849, EO I n 122<\/em><\/h3>\n<h3><strong>REFLECTION<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h3>&#8220;You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.&#8221; \u00a0(Khalil Gibran)<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I see by your letters that in Canada all trace of the first notions of the religious state has been lost&#8230;. It is time to call a halt for the disorder has gone too far. Such are the sorrows which &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5849\">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-5849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5849","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=5849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}