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- THE HABIT DOES NOT MAKE THE MISSIONARY
- FOR THESE MEN, ONLY GOD CAN ACCOUNT FOR THE SACRIFICE OF ALL THEY SUFFER FOR HIS GLORY AND THE SALVATION OF THE POOR AND TRULY ABANDONED SOULS.
- HE ADAPTED THE LOCATION OF THE MISSION TO THE LIFESTYLE OF THOSE HE WAS SENT TO SERVE
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- Eleanor Rabnett, Lay Oblate Associate on FOR THESE MEN, ONLY GOD CAN ACCOUNT FOR THE SACRIFICE OF ALL THEY SUFFER FOR HIS GLORY AND THE SALVATION OF THE POOR AND TRULY ABANDONED SOULS.
- Eleanor Rabnett, Lay Oblate Associate on HE ADAPTED THE LOCATION OF THE MISSION TO THE LIFESTYLE OF THOSE HE WAS SENT TO SERVE
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It is almost impossible to imagine the challenges and obstacles that the early Oblates experienced; not only were they responsible for allowing God to work through them in their loving service while at the same time they needed to find time to eat, sleep, pray and continue to function and live under what we today might call impossible circumstances.
And while it would be easy to cast aspersions at men like Fr. Telmon, who saw a whole new poverty opening before his eyes, as they pushed forward to serve the poorest of the poor, the most abandoned…
It is no different today in the present time, when we are called by our community to walk together, religious and lay and to work together. “They [we] share in the charism in a spirit of communion and reciprocity amongst themselves and with the Oblates.” (R 37a) When our formation becomes ongoing and our oblation alive within our daily breathing in and breathing out we too might find our experience of God unfolding before us in different ways. We know these ways are of God and again the image brought about by Isaiah 54:2 arises before us asking to enlarge the space of our tents, of our hearts.
Viktor Frankl’s comment of “What is to give light must endure burning.” sheds a new light before us. This morning I recall my words from yesterday about making myself a light to my neighbours’ feet – such a seemingly small and insignificant way of evangelizing as I gaze up into the eyes of our crucified Saviour. This may happen as we continue to serve and offer ourselves as an instrument of God.