{"id":3067,"date":"2016-03-14T05:58:07","date_gmt":"2016-03-14T03:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=3067"},"modified":"2016-03-14T05:58:07","modified_gmt":"2016-03-14T03:58:07","slug":"our-founding-vision-the-saviors-co-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=3067","title":{"rendered":"OUR FOUNDING VISION: THE SAVIOR\u2019S CO-WORKERS"},"content":{"rendered":"

The document written on 25 January 1816, that we have been reflecting on in these past weeks (Request to the Capitular Vicars of Aix<\/em>), is our first Rule of Life, our founding vision. It formed the skeleton onto which the following 200 years put life. That founding vision continues to guide us today.<\/p>\n

Two years later, in 1818 Eugene and the Missionaries wrote our first expanded and comprehensive Rule of Life. In it he summed up the founding vision in this powerful description:<\/p>\n

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What more sublime purpose than that of their Institute?<\/strong><\/h5>\n
Their founder is Jesus Christ,\u00a0<\/strong>the very Son of God;<\/strong><\/h5>\n
their first fathers are the Apostles.<\/strong><\/h5>\n
They are called to be the Savior\u2019s co-workers,<\/strong><\/h5>\n
the co-redeemers of mankind;<\/strong><\/h5>\n
and even though, because of their present small number and the more urgent needs of the people around them, they have to limit the scope of their zeal,<\/strong><\/h5>\n
for the time being,<\/strong><\/h5>\n
to the poor of our countryside and others,<\/strong><\/h5>\n
their ambition should, in its holy aspirations,<\/strong><\/h5>\n
embrace the vast expanse of the whole earth.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n

1818 Rule, Part One, Chapter One. The ends of the Institute, \u00a73. Nota Bene. Missions, 78 (1951) p. 15<\/em><\/p>\n

Every member of the Mazenodian Family, is described as a co-worker of the Savior! As each of us is inspired by the charism of St. Eugene and is drawn into its spirituality and mission \u2013 we become co-operators of the Savior. We are co-workers as brothers and priests in our vowed commitment and ministry, we are co-workers as Oblate lay associates and partners in mission, we are co-workers as supporters of the mission in any way as employees, benefactors, spiritual supporters, parishioners and friends. Each of us is an intentional co-worker of the Savior from the seemingly \u201cleast important\u201d and menial to the seemingly \u201cmost important.\u201d Each of us is a necessary component of the Savior\u2019s love for the world.<\/p>\n

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

\u201cChrist has no body now on earth but yours, no hands, no feet but yours. Yours are the eyes with which Christ looks out his compassion to the world. Yours are the feet with which he is to go about doing good. Yours are the hands with which he is to bless us now.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 Teresa of Avila<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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