{"id":3124,"date":"2016-05-16T05:00:25","date_gmt":"2016-05-16T03:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=3124"},"modified":"2016-05-15T23:35:25","modified_gmt":"2016-05-15T21:35:25","slug":"our-founding-vision-today-a-happy-service-that-proclaims-liberates-and-inspires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=3124","title":{"rendered":"OUR FOUNDING VISION TODAY: A HAPPY SERVICE THAT PROCLAIMS, LIBERATES AND INSPIRES"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><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>This short sentence contains all the elements of our vocation.<\/p>\n<p>We exist to serve the <strong>Church<\/strong>: the Body of Christ, the People of God<\/p>\n<p>Our principal service to the People of God is to <strong>proclaim<\/strong>: to announce, to share a message and conviction in word and action.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>content<\/strong> of our proclamation: Christ and his Kingdom. Not feel-good platitudes or nice messages, but Jesus Christ the Savior and the establishment of his Kingdom and its values.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>beneficiaries<\/strong> of our service\u201d the most abandoned. Those whom the structures of the local church does not touch in its ministry \u2013 those who are abandoned because there is no one to effectively tell them about Jesus Christ and accompany them into the living relationship of his Kingdom.<\/p>\n<p>This is the Mazenodian vision in a nutshell \u2013 there is no other reason for our existence. This is the summary of Eugene\u2019s vocation, life and mission. As his followers, we are called to exactly the same life-giving goal.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/FOUNDING-VISION.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-3026 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/FOUNDING-VISION-300x225.png\" alt=\"FOUNDING VISION\" width=\"336\" height=\"252\" 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: 336px) 100vw, 336px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 Andrew Carnegie<\/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 This short sentence contains all the elements of our vocation. We exist to serve the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=3124\">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-3124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3124","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=3124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}