{"id":3070,"date":"2016-03-17T05:00:38","date_gmt":"2016-03-17T03:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=3070"},"modified":"2016-03-16T23:08:01","modified_gmt":"2016-03-16T21:08:01","slug":"our-founding-vision-two-hundred-years-later-the-call-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=3070","title":{"rendered":"OUR FOUNDING VISION: TWO HUNDRED YEARS LATER THE CALL CONTINUES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two hundred years have passed since Eugene and his first companions expressed their founding vision in writing and in actions. Today that initial vision continues to inspire us and is expressed in a special way in our Rule of Life, revised in 2012. Our first ten Constitutions capture the founding vision and the spirit which has continued to inspire us and be expressed for two centuries. I will share these with you in the coming days.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>The call of Jesus Christ, heard within the Church through people&#8217;s need for salvation, draws us together as Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate. <\/strong><\/h5>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Christ thus invites us to follow him and to share in his mission through word and work.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>We are a clerical Congregation of pontifical right. We come together in apostolic communities of priests and Brothers, united to God by the vows of religion. <\/strong><\/h5>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Cooperating with the Saviour and imitating his example, we commit ourselves principally to evangelizing the poor.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>CC&amp;RR Constitution 1<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/FOUNDING-VISION.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3026\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3026 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/FOUNDING-VISION-300x225.png\" alt=\"FOUNDING VISION\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/FOUNDING-VISION-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/FOUNDING-VISION.png 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>God calls you to\u00a0the kind of work<br \/>\n(a) that you need most to do, and<br \/>\n(b) that the world most needs to have done&#8230;.<br \/>\nThe place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world\u2019s deep hunger meet.\u201d \u00a0 \u00a0 L.\u00a0Buechner<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two hundred years have passed since Eugene and his first companions expressed their founding vision in writing and in actions. Today that initial vision continues to inspire us and is expressed in a special way in our Rule of Life, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=3070\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3070\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}