{"id":3071,"date":"2016-03-18T05:00:01","date_gmt":"2016-03-18T03:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=3071"},"modified":"2016-03-16T23:25:02","modified_gmt":"2016-03-16T21:25:02","slug":"our-founding-vision-the-desire-to-co-operate-with-him-continues-to-call-us-to-be-set-apart-for-the-gospel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=3071","title":{"rendered":"OUR FOUNDING VISION: THE DESIRE TO CO-OPERATE WITH HIM CONTINUES TO CALL US TO BE SET APART FOR THE GOSPEL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our founding community\u00a0came together two hundred years ago to do exactly this. Today we express that same vision in slightly different words<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h5><strong>We are men \u201cset apart for the Gospel\u201d (Rom 1: 1), men ready to leave everything to be disciples of Jesus. The desire to co-operate with him draws us to know him more deeply, to identify with him, to let him live in us.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<h5><strong>We strive to reproduce in ourselves the pattern of his life. Thus, we give ourselves to the Father in obedience even unto death and dedicate ourselves to God&#8217;s people in unselfish love.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<h5><strong>Our apostolic zeal is sustained by the unreserved gift we make of ourselves in our oblation, an offering constantly renewed by the challenges of our mission<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>CC&amp;RR Constitution 2<\/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>\u201cDisciple making is not a call for others to come to us to hear the gospel but a command for us to go to others to share the gospel.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 David Platt<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our founding community\u00a0came together two hundred years ago to do exactly this. Today we express that same vision in slightly different words We are men \u201cset apart for the Gospel\u201d (Rom 1: 1), men ready to leave everything to be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=3071\">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-3071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3071","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=3071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3071\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}