{"id":5866,"date":"2024-10-08T03:01:32","date_gmt":"2024-10-08T01:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5866"},"modified":"2024-10-08T03:01:32","modified_gmt":"2024-10-08T01:01:32","slug":"what-i-ask-every-day-of-heaven-for-the-family-god-gave-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5866","title":{"rendered":"WHAT I ASK EVERY DAY OF HEAVEN FOR THE FAMILY GOD GAVE ME"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>We now leave the foreign missions to focus on what was happening in France in 1849.<\/h3>\n<h3>In France it is customary for people to send each other good wishes for the new year. Eugene responds to Fr Dassy:<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><em><strong>I thank you, my dear son, for the effect your affection for me inspired you to make on the passage from Baruch<\/strong><\/em> [ed. \u201cMay your days be like days in Heaven upon earth.\u201d Baruch 1. 12]<em><strong>; I called down the same blessings on you and your community, from the first day of this new year, which, after all, is no more than a confirmation of what I ask every day of Heaven for the family God gave me and which gives me so many consolations in the midst of tribulations which weigh upon us as upon the whole Church.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Letter to Fr Louis Dassy at Nancy, 7 January 1849, EO X n 994<\/em><\/h3>\n<h3><strong>REFLECTION<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h3>Eugene&#8217;s reference to the tribulations refer to the 1848 political revolutions that shook France and the whole of Europe, with consequences for the Church as witnessed to by the Pope&#8217;s exile away from Rome in Gaeta.<\/h3>\n<h3>&#8220;Even though I walk through the darkest valley, I fear no evil; for you are with me; your rod and your staff\u2014\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 they comfort me.&#8221; (Psalm 23:4)<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We now leave the foreign missions to focus on what was happening in France in 1849. In France it is customary for people to send each other good wishes for the new year. Eugene responds to Fr Dassy: I thank &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5866\">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-5866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5866","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=5866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5866\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}