{"id":278,"date":"2010-09-27T05:00:38","date_gmt":"2010-09-27T03:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=278"},"modified":"2010-09-26T09:36:39","modified_gmt":"2010-09-26T07:36:39","slug":"vocation-we-must-form-a-life-giving-nucleus-that-will-be-a-source-of-life-to-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=278","title":{"rendered":"VOCATION: WE MUST FORM A LIFE-GIVING NUCLEUS THAT WILL BE A SOURCE OF LIFE TO OTHERS"},"content":{"rendered":"

Continuing to reflect on Eugene\u2019s letter of invitation to Hilaire Aubert, we come across a central concept of Eugene\u2019s thought and action: that of forming a group that would be a life-giving cell in the world. He uses the word noyau<\/em>, which refers to a group that is a source of life to others, like a nucleus in a group of cells, or the seed in a fruit, or the core of something that has life. When he started his youth congregation in Aix, it was for them to be yeast in the society of Aix. Similarly, the Missionaries were meant to be the same: an select group of persons who would be a source of life for others.<\/p>\n

In order to be a life-giving force in France, the Missionaries would have to have a quality of life that would be a life-giving to others. They needed to aim at becoming saints by living the commandment of love, according to a Rule and with a transparent lifestyle like the apostles. In order to be a life-giving force in the world of today, we as members of the Mazenodian family, lay and religious, are called to a particular quality of life so as to be a nucleus in society.<\/p>\n

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Ah! if we could form a nucleus, there would soon cluster round it the most zealous elements in the diocese.<\/strong><\/h5>\n
Think a while about that before the good God. You know that we must have, in order to do any good in our regions, people of the country who know the language.<\/strong><\/h5>\n
Oh! do not doubt that we will become saints in our Congregation, free but united by bonds of the most tender charity, by exact submission to the Rule we would adopt, etc. We would live poorly, apostolically, etc.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Letter to Hilaire Aubert, priest and director of the Seminary of Limoges, 1815, O.W. VI n 3<\/em><\/p>\n

(Note: Hilaire Aubert never joined the Missionaries of Provence)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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