{"id":3040,"date":"2016-02-25T07:07:28","date_gmt":"2016-02-25T05:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=3040"},"modified":"2016-02-25T07:07:28","modified_gmt":"2016-02-25T05:07:28","slug":"our-founding-vision-ensuring-equilibrium-and-complementarity-within-the-mazenodian-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=3040","title":{"rendered":"OUR FOUNDING VISION: ENSURING EQUILIBRIUM AND COMPLEMENTARITY WITHIN THE MAZENODIAN FAMILY"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
Equilibrium and complementarity summarize the next section of our first Rule:<\/p>\n
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The Missionaries will divide their group in such a way that while some strive in community to acquire the virtues and knowledge proper to a good missionary, others are travelling in the rural areas proclaiming the Word of God.<\/strong><\/h5>\n
\u00a0When their apostolic journeys are over, they will return to the community to rest from their labours by exercising a ministry that is less demanding, and to prepare themselves through meditation and study for a more fruitful ministry when next called upon to undertake new work.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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

\u00a0Equilibrium<\/strong>: Eugene wanted a balanced lifestyle of distinct moments of being nourished through prayer, study and a quieter community life in order to be missionaries with more energy, spirituality and knowledge. Unfortunately the zeal of the missionaries overturned this idyllic picture because they could not resist responding with generosity to every urgent need that moved them deeply. Their health was to suffer, and several died in their 20\u2019s. Eugene himself led the pack in exhausting himself for the most abandoned, and on a number of occasions had to be banished by Henri Tempier into a forced rest and recuperation.<\/p>\n

The ideal of this equilibrium was wise, and as Eugene got older and wiser we find him urging his Oblates to live by it. He himself as bishop had a demanding daily program as Pastor of the second-largest city of France and Superior General of an expanding missionary congregation \u2013 yet he was faithful to his daily times of prolonged prayer, study of Scripture and theology, set times to meet people in his office, and moments of rest.<\/p>\n

Complementarity<\/strong>, in that while one group was out in the countryside preaching, those of the community who remained supported them in work and prayer. The missionaries who were out preaching knew that their ministry was being supported and strengthened by the prayers of their brothers.<\/p>\n

Today this complementarity is expressed in a powerful way in the missionary life of the Mazenodian Family. The fraternal support given to one another as Oblates \u2013 particulalry to those who minister in dangerous situations or are suffering or ill. Lay associates who share their particular skills, talents and insights in the mission. Partners who participate in mission through their inidispensible spiritual and material support.<\/p>\n

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

\u201cA system is in equilibrium when the forces constituting it are arranged in such a way as to complement each other, like the weights pulling at the arms of a pair of scales.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 R. Arnheim<\/p>\n

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