{"id":3090,"date":"2016-04-11T05:00:01","date_gmt":"2016-04-11T03:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=3090"},"modified":"2016-04-10T19:37:48","modified_gmt":"2016-04-10T17:37:48","slug":"the-founding-vision-today-to-be-church-in-the-mazenodian-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=3090","title":{"rendered":"THE FOUNDING VISION TODAY: TO BE CHURCH IN THE MAZENODIAN FAMILY."},"content":{"rendered":"

A committed married lay associate responded to my last reflection \u201cThe Oblation of our Lay People\u201d by pointing out that all members of the Mazenodian Family, no matter what level of attachment they have to St Eugene, have as a fundamental foundation their membership of the Church through baptism.<\/p>\n

He underlines the reality of \u201cbeing Church\u201d in the Mazenodian family as the reason for its existence. Certainly, the point he makes is fundamental because this is only one of many ways of expressing our baptism, as laity or as religious or as priests. If we lose that focus, then we become an insipid group of do-gooders. Because we belong to Jesus Christ though our baptism, we are called to become one with every aspect of his life.<\/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

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

For the Mazenodian Family, what gives us identity is that:<\/p>\n

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Our principal service in the Church is to proclaim Christ and his Kingdom to the most abandoned.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n

CC&RR, Constitution 5<\/em><\/p>\n

The Vatican document on the \u201cVocation and the Mission of the Lay Faithful in the Church and in the World” explains this understanding:<\/p>\n

Through evangelization the Church is built up into a community of faith: more precisely, into a community that confesses the faith in full adherence to the Word of God which is celebrated in the Sacraments, and lived in charity, the principle of Christian moral existence. In fact, the “good news” is directed to stirring a person to a conversion of heart and life and a clinging to Jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour; to disposing a person to receive Baptism and the Eucharist and to strengthen a person in the prospect and realization of new life according to the Spirit.<\/em><\/p>\n

Certainly the command of Jesus: “Go and preach the Gospel” always maintains its vital value and its ever-pressing obligation. Nevertheless, the present situation, not only of the world but also of many parts of the Church, absolutely demands that the word of Christ receive a more ready and generous obedience. Every disciple is personally called by name; no disciple can withhold making a response: “Woe to me, if I do not preach the gospel” (1 Cor 9:16).<\/em>\u00a0 \u00a0 (Christifideles laici n. 33)<\/p>\n

Our lay associate\u00a0writes:<\/p>\n

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In my view, what distinguishes the lay Oblate of Mary Immaculate, is the inner drive, the “compulsion”, to cooperate, to join with St. Eugene\u2019s invitation to Tempier and his companions, in order to break the Word. It means to communicate Christ the Savior and the Good News, as understandably as possible, also devising new ways of preaching in the Proven\u00e7al dialect. The lay OMI feels the need to do so even without the presence of religious OMI. An individual apostolate is not enough for him or her \u00a0to cooperate with the OMI, but he or she feels the need to look for and suggest new approaches. In other words, the lay associate “has” the charism, not only as a recipient but also as a living source of the charism.\u201d \u00a0 \u00a0 (Enzo Teodori \u00a0https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=3084#comment-335055<\/a>)<\/em><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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