{"id":3033,"date":"2016-02-19T05:00:15","date_gmt":"2016-02-19T03:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=3033"},"modified":"2016-02-18T14:38:43","modified_gmt":"2016-02-18T12:38:43","slug":"our-founding-vision-whats-in-it-for-the-missionaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=3033","title":{"rendered":"OUR FOUNDING VISION: IN US AND THROUGH US, GOD\u2019S KINGDOM COME"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Having outlined the major points of their vision statement, the missionaries continued:<\/p>\n
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The undersigned priests: \u2026<\/em><\/strong><\/h5>\n
\u2013and wishing to accomplish it in a manner as useful to themselves as it is beneficial for the people whom they propose to evangelize\u2026<\/em><\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Request to the Capitular Vicars of Aix, 25 January 1816, EO\u00a0XIII n.2<\/em><\/p>\n

Why did these men come together for the service of others? Was it pure altruism or philanthropy? No! It all hinges around the word \u201csalvation.\u201d From the beginning, Eugene was to define our ministry as that of being \u201cco-operators of the Savior.\u201d The aim of the lives and ministry of the founding group was salvation for themselves and for those to whom they ministered. It was the living out of the answer to the ageless Catechism question: \u201cWhy did God create us?\u201d The reply was: \u201cTo love Him and serve Him in this world so that we can be happy with Him in the next.\u201d<\/p>\n

Eugene was convinced that anyone of his group who lived the demands of his vocation well (in other words, faithfully followed the Rule of Life) would go straight to heaven after his death. So, the missionaries had a clear purpose: eternal salvation for themselves and all the people they ministered too. Eugene summed this up in the Preface<\/em> when he wrote:<\/p>\n

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\u201cTake great care about what you do and what you teach,\u201d was Paul\u2019s charge to Timothy, \u201cAlways do this, and thus you will save both yourself and those who listen to you\u201d (I Tim 4:16)<\/em><\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Today, the same applies, when we speak of salvation by using Jesus\u2019 own vocabulary of entering the Kingdom of God:<\/p>\n

\u201cWe come before him bearing with us the daily pressures of our anxiety for those to whom he sends us (cf. 2 Cor 11:28). Our life in all its dimensions is a prayer that, in us and through us, God\u2019s kingdom come.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0CC&RR, Constitution 32<\/p>\n

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How beautiful this is: as Missionary Oblates, our life in all its dimensions is a prayer, as lay associates our life in all its dimensions is a prayer, as anyone who is touched in any way by the charism of St Eugene, our life in all its dimensions is a prayer. As a large world-wide Mazenodian Family, our life in all its dimensions is a prayer \u2013 and what a rich variety of instruments we make so that, in us and through us, God\u2019s kingdom come! Eugene\u2019s co-operators of the Savior!<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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