{"id":3123,"date":"2016-05-13T05:00:11","date_gmt":"2016-05-13T03:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=3123"},"modified":"2016-05-13T02:49:36","modified_gmt":"2016-05-13T00:49:36","slug":"our-founding-vision-today-the-primary-reason-for-evangelizing-is-the-love-of-jesus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=3123","title":{"rendered":"OUR FOUNDING VISION TODAY: THE PRIMARY REASON FOR EVANGELIZING IS THE LOVE OF JESUS"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<h5><strong>We are a missionary Congregation. Our principal service in the Church is to proclaim Christ and his Kingdom to the most abandoned.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>CC&amp;RR, Constitution 5<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Pope Francis sheds light on our principal mission of proclaiming Christ:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The primary reason for evangelizing is the love of Jesus, which we have received, the experience of salvation which urges us to ever greater love of him. What kind of love would not feel the need to speak of the beloved, to point him out, to make him known? If we do not feel an intense desire to share this love, we need to pray insistently that he will once more touch our hearts. We need to implore his grace daily, asking him to open our cold hearts and shake up our lukewarm and superficial existence.&#8221; [<em>Evangelii Gaudium<\/em> n. 264]<\/p>\n<p>In Pope Francis\u2019 description it is easy to recognize the life and intense missionary experience of Eugene \u2013 and our desire to do the same.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Edm-mission.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3012 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Edm-mission-300x284.jpg\" alt=\"Edm mission\" width=\"300\" height=\"284\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Edm-mission-300x284.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Edm-mission.jpg 474w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn unshared life is not living. He who shares does not lessen, but greatens, his life.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 Stephen Samuel Wise<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are a missionary Congregation. Our principal service in the Church is to proclaim Christ and his Kingdom to the most abandoned. CC&amp;RR, Constitution 5 Pope Francis sheds light on our principal mission of proclaiming Christ: &#8220;The primary reason for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=3123\">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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3123","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=3123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}