{"id":5853,"date":"2024-09-23T01:00:33","date_gmt":"2024-09-22T23:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5853"},"modified":"2024-09-21T18:57:36","modified_gmt":"2024-09-21T16:57:36","slug":"you-must-preach-by-your-example","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5853","title":{"rendered":"YOU MUST PREACH BY YOUR EXAMPLE"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Thirty-five year old Fr. Jean Baudrand had been appointed superior of the community in Longueuil, Canada, and did not feel capable. In the past he had shown an independent spirit but had come to his senses.<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><em><strong>Yes, my dear son, it is I who suggested the idea of naming you superior at Longueuil. I do not doubt that the same idea occurred to the Provincial but you will perhaps be glad to know that I judged you likely to give a good account of yourself in this post.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><em><strong>Will you accuse me of a crime to have thought that you have good enough judgement, solid enough piety and love of order and regularity sufficient enough to feel assured that, even though on another occasion you might possibly have had something to be reproached with in the matter of exactitude and fidelity to the Rule. Now you have become a superior and feel the whole weight of responsibility before God, before the Church and before the Congregation, you must preach by your example and stand firm in maintaining regular observance.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Letter to Father Jean Baudrand in Longueuil, Canada, 30 September 1849, EO I n 124<\/em><\/h3>\n<h3><strong>REFLECTION<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h3>When we are tempted to think that we are not good enough to fulfil a ministry, let us never forget the promise of Jesus: &#8220;I am with you always&#8221; (Matthew 28:20).<\/h3>\n<h3>Each day we are bombarded with so many words and noise that we become immune. It is the coherent witness of good people that speaks to us and encourages us.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thirty-five year old Fr. Jean Baudrand had been appointed superior of the community in Longueuil, Canada, and did not feel capable. In the past he had shown an independent spirit but had come to his senses. Yes, my dear son, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5853\">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-5853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5853","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=5853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5853\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}