{"id":6249,"date":"2026-01-20T01:00:28","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T00:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=6249"},"modified":"2026-01-04T18:38:53","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T17:38:53","slug":"provencals-who-cannot-whatever-effort-they-make-swallow-the-detestable-oil-they-eat-in-rome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=6249","title":{"rendered":"PROVEN\u00c7ALS WHO CANNOT, WHATEVER EFFORT THEY MAKE, SWALLOW THE DETESTABLE OIL THEY EAT IN ROME"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>It was the custom to have three days of fasting during Advent, called Ember Days.<\/div>\n<p class=\"4Textofwritings\" style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><strong><span lang=\"EN-GB\">\u00a0<\/span><i><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Here at least, my dear Tempier, the days of fasting are days of penance, especially for Proven\u00e7als who cannot, whatever effort they make, swallow the detestable oil they eat in Rome. On rogation days, they observe what is called the strict minimum, that is to say, eggs and dairy products are forbidden. I thank God for my invincible repugnance for the foul oil and have contented myself these days solely with a piece of boiled fish on which I have squeezed half a lemon. Mgr. d\u2019Isoard had wished that I dine with him; I took care not to accept his pressing offer because I admit that I felt nothing would have replaced the happiness that I experienced in doing three days of penance in the true sense and the real spirit of the Church.<\/span><\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"4Textofwritings\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Letter to Henri Tempier in Marseilles, 18 December 1825, EO VII n. 212<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was the custom to have three days of fasting during Advent, called Ember Days. \u00a0Here at least, my dear Tempier, the days of fasting are days of penance, especially for Proven\u00e7als who cannot, whatever effort they make, swallow the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=6249\">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-6249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6249","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=6249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}