{"id":3148,"date":"2016-07-18T05:00:27","date_gmt":"2016-07-18T03:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=3148"},"modified":"2016-07-09T18:25:15","modified_gmt":"2016-07-09T16:25:15","slug":"the-founding-vision-today-getting-our-bearings-on-the-journey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=3148","title":{"rendered":"THE FOUNDING VISION TODAY: GETTING OUR BEARINGS ON THE JOURNEY"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
With the rather long break from these reflections, it is good to look at the map and get our bearings once again. To mark our bicentenary year, I have been exploring our founding vision and how, by living this God-given charism for 200 years, we have responded with a distinctive spirituality. Thus, I have been asking the question, \u201cWhat is the Oblate spirituality which is expressed and lived by many several; categories of members of the large Mazenodian Family in different ways?\u201d<\/p>\n

The core of our spirituality is expressed in our Oblate Rule of Life, which we are using as the basis of our reflection. Until now we have focused on the first 5 constitutions. I invite you to go back to some of the earlier entries on the website to refresh your memory.<\/p>\n

We can approach the question from a different perspective. In 1976 a group of Oblate missionaries from all over the world gathered to reflect on their LIVED EXPERIENCE of the Oblate charism and to put its central elements into words. Here are the first five statements of their summary:<\/p>\n

a) Above all we recognize the ascendancy over us of the living CHRIST<\/em><\/strong>, <\/em>who wants to liberate the world with our assistance, providing we first of all accept that he liberate us.<\/p>\n

b) We wish to EVANGELIZE<\/em><\/strong>, <\/em>that is to say, to make him known, he who became fully man to save us completely and fraternally; remembering that our Founder gave priority to the preaching of the Gospel for conversion, we want to witness by our lives the joy of the Good News.<\/p>\n

c) It is to the POOR<\/em><\/strong> that we want above all to bring the message of liberating joy: to the most humanly destitute, to those whose situations cry out for justice before God; in no way does this exclude our wanting to share this message with all who are in pressing need of these good news, even if they are not materially deprived.-<\/p>\n

d) We receive our mission from the CHURCH<\/em><\/strong> and fulfil it within her, a body of believers where Christ’s grace is made present and effective.<\/p>\n

e) To this end we live in COMMUNITY<\/em><\/strong>, <\/em>a human group where we fortify ourselves reciprocally in faith through charity, with mutual enrichment from our discovery of God and Christ living and acting in us and in the world.<\/p>\n

Statement of the OMI Charism Congress, 1976.<\/em><\/p>\n

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

\u201cTalking about peoples lived experiences is a powerful way to mobilize them.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 C. Lake<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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