{"id":794,"date":"2011-06-06T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-06T03:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=794"},"modified":"2011-06-05T11:44:33","modified_gmt":"2011-06-05T09:44:33","slug":"i-should-stop-short-at-nothing-for-the-welfare-of-this-instrument-that-is-indispensable-to-a-missionary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=794","title":{"rendered":"I SHOULD STOP SHORT AT NOTHING FOR THE WELFARE OF THIS INSTRUMENT THAT IS INDISPENSABLE TO A MISSIONARY"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>I have pretended up to now to have mislaid my stomach, and I have been quite successful in this. I believed an habitual fast, working though I was, was not doing me any harm at all; I was wrong. And so, those meals taken in the twinkling of an eye, all that gets me nowhere. Everything must have its time. That kind of behaviour is a real disorder.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>If I sleep and eat, I am persuaded my chest will stop paining me. I should stop short at nothing for the welfare of this instrument that is indispensable to a missionary.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>That is enough for that section, it is already too long, but one must give it due attention.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Retreat Notes, July-August 1816, O.W. XV n 139<\/em><\/p>\n<p>From time to time Eugene would forget his resolution as Yvon Beaudoin tells us:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h5>Exhausted by the sermons and confessions which, at times, lasted for twenty-four hours in ice-cold churches, Father de Mazenod nevertheless claimed that he rested better by lying on the planks of his bed; on settling down in a place, the first thing he hastened to do was to remove the mattress and pillow immediately.<\/h5>\n<h5>In spite of the cold and all the remonstrances Fortun\u00e9 made, he could not be persuaded to clothe warmly. \u201cHe obstinately refused to let a brand new knitted vest be put into his traveling bag in place of the one he was wearing, which was so worn and in such poor condition that he wouldn&#8217;t even give it to a beggar. He is terribly stubborn about certain things and what makes it all the more exasperating is that no one will ever change him. Consequently, in order not to be uselessly upset, I have decided not to cross him on anything any more, and I now simply recommend him to God.\u201d<\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have pretended up to now to have mislaid my stomach, and I have been quite successful in this. I believed an habitual fast, working though I was, was not doing me any harm at all; I was wrong. And &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=794\">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":[40],"tags":[9,65],"class_list":["post-794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-retreat-notes","tag-eugenes-personality","tag-poverty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794","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=794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}