{"id":2284,"date":"2013-09-26T05:24:45","date_gmt":"2013-09-26T03:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=2284"},"modified":"2013-09-26T05:24:45","modified_gmt":"2013-09-26T03:24:45","slug":"oblates-of-the-most-holy-and-immaculate-virgin-mary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=2284","title":{"rendered":"OBLATES OF THE MOST HOLY AND IMMACULATE VIRGIN MARY"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>During the day, I was busy preparing the petition to present to the Pope on the day he grants me an audience.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Roman Diary, 8 December 1825, EO XVII<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This day was the feast of the Immaculate Conception and it was during the days of prayer in preparation for it that Eugene had had the intuition to change the name of the Oblates. In the last paragraph of the petition to the Pope we come across the use of this name for the very first time:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>At the same time, we ask Your Holiness that, in the Brief of Approval which the Missionaries request, you give them the name of Oblates of the Most Holy and Immaculate Virgin Mary instead of Oblates of Saint Charles<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Petition for approbation to Pope Leo XII, 8 December 1825, EO XIII n.48<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0This continues today in our Rule of Life:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cMary Immaculate is patroness of our Congregation. Open to the Spirit, she consecrated herself totally as lowly handmaid to the person and work of the Saviour. She received Christ in order to share him with all the world, whose hope he is. In her, we recognize the model of the Church&#8217;s faith and of our own.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">CC&amp;RR, Constitution 10<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen we choose a patron of a group we spontaneously think of a person who incarnates the qualities and activities of the group in the best possible way.\u201d Fernand Jett\u00e9 OMI<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the day, I was busy preparing the petition to present to the Pope on the day he grants me an audience. Roman Diary, 8 December 1825, EO XVII This day was the feast of the Immaculate Conception and it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=2284\">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":[54,1],"tags":[37,127],"class_list":["post-2284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diary","category-writings","tag-mary","tag-roman-approbation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2284","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=2284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}