{"id":3857,"date":"2010-10-11T09:00:26","date_gmt":"2010-10-11T09:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/2010\/10\/of-all-the-calculations-i-could-make\/"},"modified":"2016-02-20T17:56:27","modified_gmt":"2016-02-20T16:56:27","slug":"of-all-the-calculations-i-could-make","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/2010\/10\/of-all-the-calculations-i-could-make\/","title":{"rendered":"Of all the calculations I could make . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/P%C3%A8re%20Ernest%20Leli%C3%A8vre.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"float: right; margin: 0 0 20px 20px;\" src=\"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/assets_c\/2010\/10\/P\u00e8re Ernest Leli\u00e8vre-thumb-200x277-7400.jpg\" alt=\"P\u00e8re Ernest Leli\u00e8vre.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"277\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Father Ernest Leli\u00e8vre,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Friend and Father to the Aged Poor<\/p>\n<p>One saint leads to another. After posting my entries on Blessed John Henry Newman and Saint Claude La Colombi\u00e8re, another friend came to mind: Father Ernest Leli\u00e8vre (1826-1889), the devoted co-worker and auxiliary priest of the Little Sisters of the Poor founded by Saint Jeanne (Mary of the Cross) Jugan (1792-1879). Father Leli\u00e8vre devoted his resources, his energy, his worldly goods, and his priesthood to the service of the aged poor. In July 1868 he arrived in New York to prepare the arrival of the Little Sisters of the Poor in the &#8220;New World.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Although there is much that I would want to say about Father Leli\u00e8vre, here is the text that, to my mind, links him, in some way, to both Blessed John Henry Newman and Saint Claude La Colombi\u00e8re:<\/p>\n<p><em>I know that I serve a Master<br \/>\nwho values the will of a sincere heart<br \/>\nbeyond any talent.<br \/>\nMy ignorance counts on His knowledge,<br \/>\nmy poverty on His wealth,<br \/>\nmy weakness, on HIs strength.<br \/>\nAnd I know,<br \/>\nand am perfectly certain that,<br \/>\nof all the calculations I could make,<br \/>\nthe wisest is to abandon myself to Him.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Father Ernest Leli\u00e8vre, Friend and Father to the Aged Poor One saint leads to another. After posting my entries on Blessed John Henry Newman and Saint Claude La Colombi\u00e8re, another friend came to mind: Father Ernest Leli\u00e8vre (1826-1889), the devoted co-worker and auxiliary priest of the Little Sisters of the Poor founded by Saint Jeanne <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-saints"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paVypq-10d","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3857"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3857"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12710,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3857\/revisions\/12710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}