{"id":5878,"date":"2024-10-22T01:00:56","date_gmt":"2024-10-21T23:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5878"},"modified":"2024-10-21T18:37:11","modified_gmt":"2024-10-21T16:37:11","slug":"oblation-the-willingness-to-be-a-martyr-of-charity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5878","title":{"rendered":"OBLATION: THE WILLINGNESS TO BE A MARTYR OF CHARITY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><em><strong>I have all my life desired to die a victim of charity. You know that this crown was withheld from me right from the first days of my ministry. The Lord had his designs since He wanted to trust me to give a new family to His Church; but for me it would have been a greater value to have died of the blessed typhus which I had contracted while serving prisoners.<\/strong> <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Letter to Fr. Henri Tempier, 12 September 1849, EO X n 1018<\/em>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>REFLECTION<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>From the time of his ordination to the priesthood, Eugene had desired to give his life totally in martyrdom at the service of others. It nearly happened in 1814 when he almost died of typhus while ministering to Austrian prisoners of war. But God had other plans: he was to be God&#8217;s instrument in founding the Missionary Oblates.<\/p>\n<p>How many martyrs of charity have we known in our lives? Not people who shed their blood in martyrdom, but rather sacrifice themselves for the good of others in their daily lives. My life is inspired and enriched by my encounter with many each day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have all my life desired to die a victim of charity. You know that this crown was withheld from me right from the first days of my ministry. The Lord had his designs since He wanted to trust me &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5878\">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-5878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5878","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=5878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5878\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}