{"id":83,"date":"2010-06-27T23:39:50","date_gmt":"2010-06-27T21:39:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=83"},"modified":"2010-09-20T21:34:47","modified_gmt":"2010-09-20T19:34:47","slug":"my-vocation-to-be-the-servant-and-priest-of-the-poor-to-whose-service-i-would-like-to-be-able-to-devote-my-whole-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=83","title":{"rendered":"MY VOCATION TO BE THE SERVANT AND PRIEST OF THE POOR TO WHOSE SERVICE I WOULD LIKE TO BE ABLE TO DEVOTE MY WHOLE LIFE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Four weeks later, Eugene begins his Sunday Lenten sermon to the poor in the Church of the Madeleine with a heartfelt expression of gratitude to his listeners for the way in which they have been receptive to the message he has been preaching.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h6><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">When we ascended this pulpit, dedicated as it is to truth, for the first time, we frankly confessed our fears that our lack of familiarity with the Provencal language would constitute an obstacle to the fruitfulness of our instructions.<\/span><\/strong><\/h6>\n<h6><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Encouraged however by a desire to serve you, we placed all our trust in the Lord and our hope has not been in vain, as the outcome has been that the holy Word transmitted to you has received an eager welcome. Praise the Lord for that, my brothers, and so overjoyed am I on that account that I am unable to contain it.<\/span><\/strong><\/h6>\n<h6><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Is this for my self-glorification? God forbid, perish the thought, one that is as hurtful to God, sole author of all good, as it is damaging and pernicious to any fool so complacent as to entertain it. The only claim I have is on your prayers, and all I deserve is to be pointed out as a wretched sinner.<\/span><\/strong><\/h6>\n<h6><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">But called by my vocation to be the servant and priest of the poor to whose service I would like to be able to devote my whole life, I cannot help being touched when I see the eagerness of the poor to hear my voice;<\/span><\/strong><\/h6>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>Instruction at the Madeleine, preached in Provencal, on the fourth Sunday of Lent <\/em><br \/>\nO.W. XV n. 115<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four weeks later, Eugene begins his Sunday Lenten sermon to the poor in the Church of the Madeleine with a heartfelt expression of gratitude to his listeners for the way in which they have been receptive to the message he &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=83\">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":[3,56,6],"class_list":["post-83","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermon","tag-poor","tag-preaching","tag-priesthood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83","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=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}