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
“Among yourselves, charity, charity, charity.” This death-bed wish of Eugene for his Oblate family reflected his lifetime of insistence that:
Charity is the pivot on which our whole existence turns.
Charity begins with God, and our call is to give everything to God in loving oblation.
That which we ought to have for God makes us renounce the world and has vowed us to his glory by all manner of sacrifice, were it even to be our lives.
Letter to Hippolyte Guibert, 29 July 1830, EO VII n 350
It is this charity, in oblation of self to God for others, that makes us truly members of a witnessing missionary family.
