{"id":5869,"date":"2024-10-11T01:00:24","date_gmt":"2024-10-10T23:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5869"},"modified":"2024-10-08T03:24:59","modified_gmt":"2024-10-08T01:24:59","slug":"a-consolation-for-me-to-keep-watch-before-the-lords-tabernacle-while-all-my-children-are-resting-in-quiet-sleep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5869","title":{"rendered":"A CONSOLATION FOR ME TO KEEP WATCH BEFORE THE LORD\u2019S TABERNACLE WHILE ALL MY CHILDREN ARE RESTING IN QUIET SLEEP"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>The father of the Oblate family&#8217;s concern for his children:<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><em><strong>Daylight is fading and so is time to prolong this good conversation with you. I hasten to embrace you and bless you, as well as the whole family confided to you. I have no need to recommend myself to the prayers of all my children, but tell them that every day at Holy Mass they are present in my thoughts and also in the evenings when I am before the Blessed Sacrament. That happens quite often at half past ten or eleven o\u2019clock. I am forced to do this by my daily occupations, but it is also a consolation for me to keep watch before the Lord\u2019s tabernacle while all my children are resting in quiet sleep.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Letter to Fr. Louis Dassy in Nancy, 13 February 1849, EO X n 997<\/em><\/h3>\n<h3><strong>REFLECTION<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h3>This practice of oraison, of prayer in communion before the Blessed Sacrament, is one of St Eugene&#8217;s gifts to us. As the founder and father he daily made present all the people he loved when he communed with them in the presence of Jesus. As a saint he continues to do this for us, but also encourages us to do likewise with the people we love.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The father of the Oblate family&#8217;s concern for his children: Daylight is fading and so is time to prolong this good conversation with you. I hasten to embrace you and bless you, as well as the whole family confided to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5869\">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-5869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5869","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=5869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5869\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}