{"id":3078,"date":"2016-04-06T05:00:01","date_gmt":"2016-04-06T03:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=3078"},"modified":"2016-04-03T16:42:49","modified_gmt":"2016-04-03T14:42:49","slug":"our-founding-vision-today-the-only-condition-for-being-a-member-of-the-mazenodian-family-is-that-we-are-called-by-jesus-christ-for-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=3078","title":{"rendered":"OUR FOUNDING VISION TODAY: THE ONLY CONDITION FOR BEING A MEMBER OF THE MAZENODIAN FAMILY IS THAT WE ARE CALLED BY JESUS CHRIST FOR IT"},"content":{"rendered":"

The only reason we are members of the family of St Eugene is because Jesus Christ has called us to do this.<\/p>\n

\"lay\"<\/a>We are not brothers and priests because we have bleeding hearts for people who suffer and are abandoned. We are not associates because we find an outlet for our philanthropic urges in helping the poor. We are not members of the wider Mazenodian Family just because we feel good when we want to be involved in and supportive of the ministry of the Oblates.<\/p>\n

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The call of Jesus Christ, heard within the Church through people\u2019s need for salvation, draws us together.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n

We are CALLED by Jesus Christ \u2013 and this has to be the only reason why we become members of the Mazenodian family. It is a vocation, and we respond directly to Jesus the Savior, who calls us through people\u2019s need for salvation.<\/p>\n

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Christ thus invites us to follow him and to share in his mission through word and work.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n

It is Jesus who invites us to follow him, and only because we follow him does he invite us to share his mission in whatever way our state of life makes possible as supporters and co-workers, as lay associates or as vowed religious and priests. Because we are family of St. Eugene,<\/p>\n

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Cooperating with the Saviour and imitating his example, we commit ourselves principally to evangelizing the poor<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n

CC&RR Constitution 1<\/p>\n

Our starting point has to be our relationship with Jesus the Savior. If not, we remain at the level of being do-gooders. With Eugene we are invited to say:<\/p>\n

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You, you alone will be the sole object to which will tend all my affections and my every action.
\nTo please you, act for your glory, will be my daily task, the task of every moment of my life.
\nI wish to live only for you, I wish to love you alone and all else in you and through you.
\nI despise riches, I trample honors under foot; you are my all, replacing all else. My God, my love and my all: “Deus meus et omnia.”<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Notes made during the retreat in preparation for priestly ordination,
\nDecember 1-21, EO XIV n 95<\/em><\/p>\n

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

\u201cYou are the root, and only God knows that the flower will be.\u201d \u00a0\u00a0William P. Young<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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