THE PURPOSE OF OUR OBLATE FAMILY  IS THE SAME AS OUR LORD PROPOSED FOR HIMSELF WHEN HE CAME INTO THE WORLD (C3)

Our Lord grouped the Twelve around him to be his companions and to be sent out as his messengers (cf. Mk 3:14).

The call and the presence of the Lord among us today bind us together in charity and obedience to create anew in our own lives the Apostles’ unity with him and their common mission in his Spirit. (Constitution 3)

Meditating on the Oblate Rule, after having lived it for thirteen years, Eugene wrote:

I said to myself while meditating on our Rules that we would never be able sufficiently to thank the good God for having given them to us, for God alone indisputably is their author… I am no longer astonished… when I consider that the purpose of our Institute is the same as Our Lord proposed to himself when he came into the world. I come across I don’t know how many passages which are proof again and again of the perfection of our Institute and the excellence of the means it puts at our disposal to follow in the footsteps of Jesus Christ and his Apostles. I could go on for ever on this subject.

 Retreat Notes, 1831, EO VIII, n. 407

An invitation for us to reflect, over and over again, on our call to be united with Jesus Christ in his saving work in all aspects of our lives.