{"id":5944,"date":"2025-01-08T01:00:27","date_gmt":"2025-01-08T00:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5944"},"modified":"2025-01-06T18:01:59","modified_gmt":"2025-01-06T17:01:59","slug":"everywhere-the-missionaries-are-admirable-for-their-zeal-and-their-charity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5944","title":{"rendered":"EVERYWHERE THE MISSIONARIES ARE ADMIRABLE FOR THEIR ZEAL AND THEIR CHARITY"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>In sending more missionaries to Ceylon, Eugene wrote to the superior of that mission.<\/h3>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><em><strong>I have no doubt that you will be very happy with the Fathers whom I am sending you\u2026 As for Fr. Mouchel, I do not think any missionary has ever had so clear a vocation. He has already studied English a good deal, and you can look on him as a man truly devoted&#8230;\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><em><strong>Everywhere they are admirable for their zeal and their charity. If it is hot in Ceylon, it is certainly cold on Hudson\u2019s Bay, and all our missionaries on missions to the Red Indians, whether they are French, Irish or Canadian, are certainly leading a harder life than the one that he is so weak as to complain about.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3>Then he shares family news from North America:<\/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. I recently sent them some shoes, some shirts, some trousers and so on. They have nothing, living among those Indians.<\/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>\u201cI have but one candle of life to burn, and I would rather burn it out in a land filled with darkness than in a land flooded with light\u201d (J.K. Falconer)<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In sending more missionaries to Ceylon, Eugene wrote to the superior of that mission. I have no doubt that you will be very happy with the Fathers whom I am sending you\u2026 As for Fr. Mouchel, I do not think &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5944\">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-5944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5944","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=5944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5944\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}