Eugene is enthralled by the wonder of our vocation. It is made in heaven and is an invitation to enter into the realm of heaven by giving us the charge of being nothing less than the co-operators of the Savior!<\/p>\n
\nWhat more sublime purpose than that of their Institute?
\n<\/strong>Their founder is Jesus Christ, the very Son of God;
\n<\/strong>their first fathers are the Apostles.
\n<\/strong>They are called to be the Savior\u2019s co-workers, the co-redeemers of mankind<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\nThen, conscious of the fact that they are only 6 priests and 3 scholastic seminarians at the moment, his enthusiasm cannot be contained \u2013 they have big dreams:<\/p>\n
\nand even though,<\/strong><\/h5>\n
because of their present small number and<\/strong><\/h5>\n
the more urgent needs of the people around them,<\/strong><\/h5>\n
they have to limit the scope of their zeal,<\/strong><\/h5>\n
for the time being,<\/strong><\/h5>\n
to the poor of our countryside and others,<\/strong><\/h5>\n
their ambition should, in its holy aspirations,<\/strong><\/h5>\n
embrace the vast expanse of the whole earth<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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1818 Rule, Part One, Chapter One. The ends of the Institute, \u00a73. Nota Bene. <\/em>
\nMissions, 78 (1951) p. 15<\/em><\/p>\nEugene\u2019s daily encounters with the Savior in prayer, and his Bible-rooted spirituality filled him with the confidence to have big dreams: ‘There is no need to be afraid, little flock, for it has pleased your Father to give you the kingdom<\/em>.” Luke 12:32<\/p>\n
He was described as having a heart as big as the world, and with his conviction he could visualize the mustard seed at growth from Aix en Provence \u2013 reaching today to all the countries of the world where the members of the Mazenodian family are present..<\/p>\n
“The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed that someone took and sowed in his field;\u00a0it is the smallest of all the seeds, but when it has grown it is the greatest of shrubs and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and make nests in its branches.”\u00a0 <\/em>Matthew 13:31-32<\/p>\n
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Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em>C. S. Lewis<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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