{"id":3038,"date":"2016-02-23T05:00:54","date_gmt":"2016-02-23T03:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=3038"},"modified":"2016-02-20T00:56:03","modified_gmt":"2016-02-19T22:56:03","slug":"our-founding-vision-the-missionary-is-not-to-be-a-clanging-cymbal-or-a-discharged-battery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=3038","title":{"rendered":"OUR FOUNDING VISION: THE MISSIONARY IS NOT TO BE A CLANGING CYMBAL OR A DISCHARGED BATTERY"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
In the first Rule, the missionaries note their desire to live a life of equilibrium that includes the importance of prayer and study so as not to be empty vessels with nothing to give when they are on mission:<\/p>\n
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If they preferred to form a regular community of Missionaries, it is in an effort to be useful to the diocese,<\/strong><\/h5>\n
while at the same time working at their own sanctification in conformity with their vocation.<\/strong><\/h5>\n
Thus their life will be spent in prayer, in meditating the sacred truths,<\/strong><\/h5>\n
\u00a0in practicing the\u00a0 religious virtues,<\/strong><\/h5>\n
in studying Sacred Scripture, the holy Fathers, dogmatic and moral theology,<\/strong><\/h5>\n
in preaching and in the direction of youth.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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

Eugene and his first companions intended a life of equilibrium between receiving and giving. The missionaries need to receive through prayer, study and reflection so as to have something of value to share through their mission. Without this equilibrium they would become clanging cymbals with nothing of substance to offer in their evangelizing activities and without the ability to be evangelized themselves by those who are the most abandoned. Twenty years later, Eugene continued to stress this:<\/p>\n

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But beware of driving yourself as if it were a challenge. In God\u2019s name, go back to the bosom of the community to renew yourselves in the spirit of your vocation, otherwise it is all up with our missionaries, they will soon be no more than sounding cymbals.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Letter to Eugene Guigues, 27 May 1835, EO VIII n 516<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0\"FOUNDING<\/a><\/p>\n

“We take better care of our smartphone than ourselves. We know when the battery is depleted and recharge it” \u00a0\u00a0Arianna Huffington<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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