{"id":5868,"date":"2024-10-10T01:00:37","date_gmt":"2024-10-09T23:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5868"},"modified":"2024-10-08T03:19:40","modified_gmt":"2024-10-08T01:19:40","slug":"our-great-plague-is-ignorance-we-must-do-all-we-can-to-counteract-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5868","title":{"rendered":"OUR GREAT PLAGUE IS IGNORANCE &#8211; WE MUST DO ALL WE CAN TO COUNTERACT IT"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>From the beginning of our existence, the aim of Oblate preaching was to catechize: to teach people who the Savior is and to educate them in the contents of our faith. Fr Hippolyte Court\u00e8s had started a course of teaching catechism in Aix. Eugene encouraged him:<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><em><strong>I see no difficulty in the course you have taken. It would have been difficult to refuse such a proposal which, besides, fits rather well into the objectives of our Congregation. In practice, you will have to oversee this teaching by laypeople which can be rather imperfect and insufficient. You will have to know how to make this catechism interesting, for it must be something more than an ordinary catechism. For that you will need to draw up a plan of instructions, which will certainly be based on what is elementary, but which will go a little more deeply into the science of religion. Our great plague is ignorance. We must do all we can to counteract it.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Letter to Fr. Hippolyte Court\u00e8s in Aix, 10 January 1849, EO X n 995.<\/em><\/h3>\n<h3><strong>REFLECTION<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h3>&#8220;Being a catechist is not a title; it is an attitude of abiding with him, and it lasts a lifetime!\u00a0 It means abiding in the Lord\u2019s presence and letting ourselves be led by him.&#8221; (Pope Francis)<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the beginning of our existence, the aim of Oblate preaching was to catechize: to teach people who the Savior is and to educate them in the contents of our faith. Fr Hippolyte Court\u00e8s had started a course of teaching &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5868\">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-5868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5868","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=5868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}