{"id":81,"date":"2010-06-25T23:30:16","date_gmt":"2010-06-25T21:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=81"},"modified":"2010-09-20T18:21:58","modified_gmt":"2010-09-20T16:21:58","slug":"you-are-slaves-of-those-who-pay-your-wages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=81","title":{"rendered":"YOU ARE SLAVES OF THOSE WHO PAY YOUR WAGES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Eugene continues to remind his poor listeners how they are regarded by the world \u2013 all the time to highlight his central message: \u201cyou are more precious in the eyes of God than all earth\u2019s riches.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h6><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Servants, who are you in the eyes of the world? A class of people slaves of those who pay your wages, exposed to contempt, injustice and often even ill-treatment at the hands of demanding and sometimes cruel employers who think they have bought the right to treat you with injustice with the paltry wage they pay you.<\/span><\/strong><\/h6>\n<h6><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><\/strong><\/h6>\n<h6><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> And you, tillers of the soil, peasants, who are you in the eyes of the world? However valuable your labours, you are valued only for the strength of your arms and if your sweat, distasteful as it is to them, gets any attention at all, it is only because it falls on and enriches the ground.<\/span><\/strong><\/h6>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>Notes for the first instruction in the Church of the Madeleine <\/em><br \/>\nO.W. XV n. 114<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Five years earlier, Eugene had spoken of his own relationship with the servants of his family (remembering that there had been 12 in his childhood home). It is in interesting contrast with how he portrays the world\u2019s attitude:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h6><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">A person\u2019s rank in society does not enter as a factor at all into the feeling that brings me to love someone who of a truth loves me. The proof of this is the unbelievable affection I have for the servants who are truly fond of me; I hate being separated from them, it is a wrench for me to leave them, I take an interest in their welfare, and will not overlook anything to secure it, and I do not do this out of magnanimity or greatness of soul, motivations of that kind influence me only when it is a question of people who are cold, but out of feeling, tenderness, really the only word for it is friendship.<\/span><\/strong><\/h6>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>Eugene\u2019s Self-Portrait for his spiritual director<br \/>\nO.W. XIV n <\/em>30<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eugene continues to remind his poor listeners how they are regarded by the world \u2013 all the time to highlight his central message: \u201cyou are more precious in the eyes of God than all earth\u2019s riches.\u201d Servants, who are you &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=81\">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":[57],"tags":[3,56],"class_list":["post-81","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermon","tag-poor","tag-preaching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81","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=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}