{"id":5968,"date":"2025-02-06T01:00:41","date_gmt":"2025-02-06T00:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5968"},"modified":"2025-02-05T02:34:13","modified_gmt":"2025-02-05T01:34:13","slug":"the-habit-does-not-make-the-missionary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5968","title":{"rendered":"THE HABIT DOES NOT MAKE THE MISSIONARY"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><em>After his arrival, D\u2019Herbomez was amazed to see the \u201crenowned missionaries of Oregon at his first encounter with them. Brother Verney was dressed in a French cap, goatskin leggings, and moccasins, covered by a green cloth under an old blue vest and a frock coat. Pandosy was dressed in a worn out cassock, an old straw hat, goatskin leggings and thick shoes. All this made D\u2019herbomez exclaim, &#8220;The habit does not make a missionary\u2019&#8221;<\/em>(Young p. 102).<\/h3>\n<h3><em>At first, Ricard considered sending D\u2019Herbomez to the Swanomish tribe on Puget Sound. However, he later decided that D\u2019Herbomez could better use his time learning English, Chinook and Walla Walla. Initially, they sent him to serve in the Yakama missions with Father Chirouse. In August 1851, Chirouse, D\u2019Herbomez and Brother Verney traveled to Chirouse\u2019s mission of Saint Joseph in the Yakama country. For D\u2019Herbomez it was an arduous journey through dangerously steep mountain passes. However, they were relieved and happy to arrive at the wilderness mission they would call home<\/em>. (Young 115 -116)<\/h3>\n<h3><strong>REFLECTION<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h3>Often we romanticize our ideas of the early Oblate missionaries beautifully dressed in their spotless cassocks and Crosses while preaching and converting. The narratives of their actual experiences shatter this romantic picture. What counts is the quality of their lives, their courageous and zealous preaching of the Gospel, and the witness of how they lived their message.<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cBeware, so long as you live, of judging persons by their outward appearance.\u201d Jean de La Fontaine<\/h3>\n<h3><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After his arrival, D\u2019Herbomez was amazed to see the \u201crenowned missionaries of Oregon at his first encounter with them. Brother Verney was dressed in a French cap, goatskin leggings, and moccasins, covered by a green cloth under an old blue &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5968\">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-5968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5968","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=5968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5968\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}