{"id":6326,"date":"2026-04-09T01:00:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T23:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=6326"},"modified":"2026-04-08T18:15:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T16:15:25","slug":"thursday-in-the-octave-of-easter-let-the-word-penetrate-our-walls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=6326","title":{"rendered":"THURSDAY IN THE OCTAVE OF EASTER: LET THE WORD PENETRATE OUR WALLS"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<h3 class=\"4Textofwritings\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">He said to them,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">\u201cThese are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">that everything written about me in the law of Moses<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">and in the prophets and psalms must be fulfilled.\u201d<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Luke 24:44<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"4Textofwritings\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">\u00a0<\/span><strong>EUGENE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"4Textofwritings\" style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><em><strong><span lang=\"EN-GB\">\u201cHanded on to his Apostles by Jesus, this word has lost none of its power in the course of the ages. We have experienced the fact that because it issued from the mouth of him who is himself eternal life, it is always spirit and life.\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"4Textofwritings\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Eugene de Mazenod, Pastoral Letter 1844<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"4Textofwritings\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">\u00a0<\/span><strong>THE WALLS OF OUR UPPER ROOM<\/strong><\/p>\n<div>\n<h3 class=\"4Textofwritings\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">\u00a0<\/span>Today we can understand in a deeper way the experience of the disciples locked in the upper room because they were afraid. The risen Jesus appeared to them and opened their minds to his presence in the Scriptures. Let us invite the Risen Jesus to penetrate the walls of our \u201cupper room\u201d today and give him time to open our minds to understand how present he is whenever we read the Word of God.<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He said to them, \u201cThese are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you that everything written about me in the law of Moses and in the prophets and psalms must be fulfilled.\u201d Luke 24:44 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=6326\">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-6326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6326","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=6326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}