{"id":6145,"date":"2025-09-24T00:30:42","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T22:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=6145"},"modified":"2025-09-23T18:41:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T16:41:18","slug":"close-to-the-people-from-the-beginning-of-our-existence-c8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=6145","title":{"rendered":"CLOSE TO THE PEOPLE FROM THE BEGINNING OF OUR EXISTENCE (C8)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><em><strong>We will always be close to the people with whom we work, taking into account their values and aspirations.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Constitution 8<\/em><\/h3>\n<h3>Eugene transmitted his methodology of being close to the people to his newly-founded group of Missionaries who were founded to preach prolonged parish missions in the small villages. In the diary of one of their earliest missions in 1816, Eugene wrote:<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><em><strong>After breakfast, the missionaries resumed their visits until midday.<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong>These visits are not very entertaining but they are very important, for they bring the missionaries close to the people they have come to evangelize.<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong>They let themselves be seen in all the warmth of a charity which makes itself all things to all men, in this way they win over the most distant among them; they are able to give encouragement, to spur people on, to meet head-on some resistance, and, as they make progress, they end up discovering and to begin the process of remedying disorders that have often escaped the watchful care even of a zealous pastor.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Diary of the Marignane Mission, 18 November 1816, EO XVI<\/em><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We will always be close to the people with whom we work, taking into account their values and aspirations. Constitution 8 Eugene transmitted his methodology of being close to the people to his newly-founded group of Missionaries who were founded &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=6145\">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-6145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6145","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=6145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}