{"id":3129,"date":"2016-05-19T05:00:08","date_gmt":"2016-05-19T03:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=3129"},"modified":"2016-05-18T22:40:48","modified_gmt":"2016-05-18T20:40:48","slug":"the-founding-vision-today-the-missionary-is-a-frontier-person","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=3129","title":{"rendered":"THE FOUNDING VISION TODAY: THE MISSIONARY IS A FRONTIER PERSON"},"content":{"rendered":"
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We are a missionary Congregation\u2026<\/strong><\/h5>\n
Where the Church is already established, our commitment is to those groups it touches least.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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

Fr. Jett\u00e9, reflects on the meaning of the word \u201cmissionary.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cTo be missionary\u201d means to be sent on a mis\u00adsion of evangelization: it does not matter whether one is sent to the foreign missions or to the home or parish missions. The missionary is a frontier man, one who is always intent on forging ahead, on going farther afield. Zeal, daring, mobility, availabili\u00adty are his characteristic traits! And obedience too: he receives the mission of another, the mission of the Church: he is a man who \u201cis sent\u201d\u2026.<\/em><\/p>\n

Generally speaking, the diocesan priest exists and works within pastoral structures that are stable, in a parish, for example, or a directorship or chaplaincy; furthermore, he is permanently attached to a diocese which he cannot leave. The missionary, to the con\u00adtrary, is available for the Church\u2019s avant-garde tasks or urgent needs, for evangelization work, both outside and within a given diocese…<\/em><\/p>\n

F. Jett\u00e9,\u00a0\u00a0OMI The Apostolic Man<\/em>, p 60-61<\/p>\n

Our former Superior General is reflecting on Oblate brothers and priests, but the whole Mazenodian Family is \u201cmissionary.\u201d By virtue of our baptism we are all disciples, we are all missionaries, and if it is the charism of St Eugene that guides and molds us, then we are all \u201cfrontier\u201d persons, ready to express our love for our Savior and to share it with those whose frontiers are the distance from knowing God\u2019s love and compassion.\\<\/p>\n

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

\u201cCompassion asks us to go where it hurts, to enter into the places of pain, to share in brokenness, fear, confusion, and anguish. Compassion challenges us to cry out with those in misery, to mourn with those who are lonely, to weep with those in tears. Compassion requires us to be weak with the weak, vulnerable with the vulnerable, and powerless with the powerless. Compassion means full immersion in the condition of being human.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 Henri Nouwen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We are a missionary Congregation\u2026 Where the Church is already established, our commitment is to those groups it touches least. CC&RR, Constitution 5 Fr. Jett\u00e9, reflects on the meaning of the word \u201cmissionary.\u201d \u201cTo be missionary\u201d means to be sent … Continue reading →<\/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-3129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3129","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=3129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}