{"id":2582,"date":"2014-06-23T05:00:22","date_gmt":"2014-06-23T03:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=2582"},"modified":"2014-06-18T02:07:30","modified_gmt":"2014-06-18T00:07:30","slug":"two-hundred-years-later-a-spirit-of-oblation-to-change-the-world-of-the-most-abandoned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=2582","title":{"rendered":"TWO HUNDRED YEARS LATER: A SPIRIT OF OBLATION TO CHANGE THE WORLD OF THE MOST ABANDONED"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eugene concludes his official narration of the events of our approbation with the exhortation to respond by making their own the words of Saint Paul: \u201c<em>I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls<\/em>\u201d (2 Corinthians 12:15)<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Now, my Reverend Fathers and Brothers most beloved in the Lord, what more shall I say to you, in whom the Holy Spirit inflames your hearts and has inspired everything, if not, after these so numerous and so great signs of the protection of the Most High, that you ought to give yourselves eagerly to the promotion of the glory of God, ready to endure for his honour the most dire sacrifices;<\/strong><\/h5>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>that you have been chosen, by a special grace, in these times of calamity, to rekindle the flame of piety of the first disciples of the faith,<\/strong><\/h5>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>reproduce in your life the illustrious examples of so many Religious who, by the attentive exercise of these same virtues you practice, have arrived at the summit of holiness and have thus consoled the holy Mother of Christians who deplores the destruction of these Orders, crushed in several places by the violent tempest of the persecution;<\/strong><\/h5>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>finally, that by a sustained effort, especially, following the spirit of our Institute, \u00a0you ought to bring help to souls of the most abandoned, repeating without cease with joyful eagerness this word of the Apostle: \u201cI will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls\u2026\u201d<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Letter to all the Oblates, 25 March 1826, EO VII n 232<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 &#8220;A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.&#8221; \u00a0 Mahatma Gandhi<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eugene concludes his official narration of the events of our approbation with the exhortation to respond by making their own the words of Saint Paul: \u201cI will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls\u201d (2 Corinthians 12:15) Now, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=2582\">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":[97,12,21,3],"class_list":["post-2582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters","tag-approbation-of-congregation","tag-oblation","tag-omi-rule","tag-poor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2582","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=2582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2582\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}