{"id":5943,"date":"2025-01-07T01:00:57","date_gmt":"2025-01-07T00:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5943"},"modified":"2025-01-06T17:53:00","modified_gmt":"2025-01-06T16:53:00","slug":"would-to-god-that-we-had-so-swift-a-means-of-communicating-with-ceylon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5943","title":{"rendered":"WOULD TO GOD THAT WE HAD SO SWIFT A MEANS OF COMMUNICATING WITH CEYLON"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Eugene always marvelled at the inventions of his time. A few years earlier the telegraph had been invented by Morse and others, and Eugene marvelled at its speed of communication:<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><em><strong>Would to God that we had so swift a means of communicating with Ceylon: the telegram, which was composed in Paris at 2 o\u2019clock today, reached me at 8 minutes past 5; three hours and eight minutes for a journey of two hundred leagues is wonderful.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3>He had just received a letter from Ceylon 42 days after it was sent! His letter continued:<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><em><strong>We have as yet no news of Fr. Lempfrit\u2019s arrival in Oregon, and it takes eight months for a letter to arrive.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Letter to Fr Etienne Semeria, 21 February 1849, EO IV n. 10<\/em><\/h3>\n<h3><strong>REFLECTION<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h3>Eugene wanted to have a constant relation with his missionaries, and we often come across his frustration at having to rely on delivery by slow ships crossing oceans as his only form of communication. Had he lived today, he would have made constant use of social media to stay in touch with his missionary family.<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cWriting, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.\u201d (Isaac Asimov)<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eugene always marvelled at the inventions of his time. A few years earlier the telegraph had been invented by Morse and others, and Eugene marvelled at its speed of communication: Would to God that we had so swift a means &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5943\">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,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5943","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=5943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5943\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}