{"id":4995,"date":"2019-07-15T01:17:19","date_gmt":"2019-07-15T05:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/?p=4995"},"modified":"2024-11-03T21:08:44","modified_gmt":"2024-11-04T04:08:44","slug":"the-poor-mans-prayer-of-alphonse-desjardins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/2019\/07\/the-poor-mans-prayer-of-alphonse-desjardins\/","title":{"rendered":"The &#8220;poor man&#8217;s prayer&#8221; of Alphonse Desjardins"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n<em>A prayer for the work of the caisse populaire and other similar\nworks:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sacred Heart of\nJesus, I beg of You the special grace of Your divine light.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\tIf I am making a\nmistake, enlighten me, and inspire in my a strong aversion, a great\ndislike for the idea that I would pursue and which is the aim of my\nwork.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\tMay I repel it with\na sort of scorn, if it is Your good pleasure and make it disappear\nfrom my mind. If I should never think about it again from this moment\nI would be a thousand times happy. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\tRemove from my\nheart all false vanity, all impractical desire, all chimeras and\nfoolish dreams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\tIf You wish that I\npersevere in this way, oh my God, fill my weakness with your\nstrength; clear away the obstacles or give me the means to surmount\nthem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\tIn this case as in\nthe other give me the most perfect resignation to your holy will.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\tMay your purpose be\nmine, may your desires be as commands to me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\tDeign, oh Jesus, to\ndirect, to inspire my activities toward whatsoever be the end of your\neternal purposes; bring it about that I may find perfect harmony with\nyour will in the hearts of those who follow me, but especially in the\nheart of my wife, the beloved companion of my life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\tThat she should\nalways be my consolation and my help, whether you inspire me to the\ncomplete abandonment of these projects or to the thought of\naccomplishing them. Amen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <strong>\u2014Alphonse Desjardins, quoted in George Boyle, <\/strong><em><strong>The Poor Man\u2019s Prayer: The Story of Credit Union Beginnings<\/strong><\/em><strong> (Harper &amp; Brothers, 1951), pp. 203-204<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A prayer for the work of the caisse populaire and other similar works: Sacred Heart of Jesus, I beg of You the special grace of Your divine light. If I am making a mistake, enlighten me, and inspire in my a strong aversion, a great dislike for the idea that I would pursue and which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4995"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4995"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4997,"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4995\/revisions\/4997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}