{"id":5899,"date":"2024-11-12T02:02:02","date_gmt":"2024-11-12T01:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5899"},"modified":"2024-11-12T02:02:02","modified_gmt":"2024-11-12T01:02:02","slug":"our-congregation-is-the-most-esteemed-of-all-in-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5899","title":{"rendered":"OUR CONGREGATION IS THE MOST ESTEEMED OF ALL IN ENGLAND"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Perhaps with a touch of Mazenodian exaggeration, Eugene declared:<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><em><strong>The word of the English bishops, whom I have had occasion to see as they passed through here, is that our Congregation is the most esteemed of all in England and the bishops compete for the advantage of having her in their dioceses.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>To Bishop Bruno Guigues, 10 May 1849, EO I n 118<\/em><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\">Very few letters concerning the early years of the Anglo Irish province have been preserved. Yet this was an important mission that was to send Oblate missionaries all over the world for well over a century. In the light of this, in the following entries I would like to fill in some of the early history from other sources.<\/p>\n<p><strong>REFLECTION<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe spirit of Christ is the spirit of missions. The nearer we get to Him, the more intensely missionary we become.\u201d (Henry Martyn)<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps with a touch of Mazenodian exaggeration, Eugene declared: The word of the English bishops, whom I have had occasion to see as they passed through here, is that our Congregation is the most esteemed of all in England and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5899\">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-5899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5899","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=5899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5899\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}