{"id":1681,"date":"2012-09-17T05:00:05","date_gmt":"2012-09-17T03:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=1681"},"modified":"2012-09-17T00:07:49","modified_gmt":"2012-09-16T22:07:49","slug":"god-calls-thru-concrete-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=1681","title":{"rendered":"GOD CALLS THRU CONCRETE EVENTS"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>My uncle informed me about the proposal of the Members of the Work of Providence. If I understood it well, these men would want to know if we could undertake the direction of the poor people that their charity has gathered together<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Letter to Madame Roux in Marseille, 3 January 1821, EO XIII n. 32<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Through this invitation the Missionaries of Provence recognized the call of God to establish themselves in Marseille. Why did this small Missionary group want to stretch their limited resources and also begin to work in Marseille?<\/p>\n<p>There were two main reasons. Firstly, Eugene\u2019s uncle Fortun\u00e9 had been designated Bishop of this city in 1817 but political events had prevented its realization. So the presence of the Missionaries in this city would be important when circumstances would eventually allow Fortun\u00e9 to take over the diocese.<\/p>\n<p>Secondly, in 1820 Eugene\u2019s Missionaries of Provence had joined the Missionaries of France for the mission of evangelization of the city of Marseille. The people of the city wanted them to minister permanently in their city. Unfortunately human interests and rivalry were to get in the way and cause problems in the future: a group of influential wealthy citizens wanted the Missionaries of France while it was the poorer classes who wanted Eugene\u2019s Missionaries.<\/p>\n<p>Oblate Rule of Life Invites us to continue seeking God\u2019s invitations thru the events of everyday lifr<\/p>\n<p><em>While maintaining within ourselves an atmosphere of silence and inner peace, we seek his presence in the hearts of the people and in the events of daily life.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>CC&amp;RR, Constitution 31<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWe can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can<br \/>\n<\/em><em>namely, surrender our will and fulfill God&#8217;s will in us.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em>St. Teresa of Avila<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My uncle informed me about the proposal of the Members of the Work of Providence. If I understood it well, these men would want to know if we could undertake the direction of the poor people that their charity has &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=1681\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[58,31],"class_list":["post-1681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters","tag-foundation-of-omi","tag-will-of-god"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}