{"id":5863,"date":"2024-10-02T01:00:33","date_gmt":"2024-10-01T23:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5863"},"modified":"2024-10-01T17:02:48","modified_gmt":"2024-10-01T15:02:48","slug":"he-is-all-filled-with-joy-at-the-thought-of-the-privations-he-will-have-to-undergo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5863","title":{"rendered":"HE IS ALL FILLED WITH JOY AT THE THOUGHT OF THE PRIVATIONS HE WILL HAVE TO UNDERGO"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Oblate missions were opening up in several parts of Canada, and it is hard to keep up from Eugene\u2019s correspondence. So I am grouping together the various letters referring to one area. Our recent reflections have concerned Eastern and Central Canada. Now we focus on Oregon, a foundation that would later move north to open up the area of Vancouver.<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><em><strong>Next Sunday I am going to ordain Brother d\u2019Herbomez. He will leave immediately for the difficult mission of Oregon. He is all filled with joy at the thought of the privations he will have to undergo. That is what he has been asking of the Lord for a long time. These are truly generous souls and not like these lazy ones who refuse to go to a mission like England. When one has these dispositions, one is as ready for one mission as for another.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Letter to Fr Ambroise Vincens at N. D. de L\u2019Osier, 12 October 1849, EO X n 1024<\/em><\/h3>\n<h3><strong>REFLECTION<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h3>&#8220;Missionary zeal does not grow out of intellectual beliefs, nor out of theological arguments, but out of love. If I do not love a person I am not moved to help him by proofs that he is in need; if I do love him, I wait for no proof of a special need to urge me to help him.&#8221; (Roland Allen)<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oblate missions were opening up in several parts of Canada, and it is hard to keep up from Eugene\u2019s correspondence. So I am grouping together the various letters referring to one area. Our recent reflections have concerned Eastern and Central &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5863\">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-5863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5863","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=5863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5863\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}