{"id":3165,"date":"2016-08-03T05:00:10","date_gmt":"2016-08-03T03:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=3165"},"modified":"2016-07-22T16:16:34","modified_gmt":"2016-07-22T14:16:34","slug":"our-founding-vision-today-helping-people-to-discover-who-christ-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=3165","title":{"rendered":"OUR FOUNDING VISION TODAY: HELPING PEOPLE TO DISCOVER \u201cWHO CHRIST IS\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"
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We will spare no effort to awaken or to reawaken the faith in the people to whom we are sent, and we will help them to discover \u201cwho Christ is”<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n

CC&RR, Constitution 7<\/em><\/p>\n

Here we find our Oblate ministry spelt out in a nutshell. Too often Eugene is presented solely as a do-gooder with a special love for helping the poor. He certainly was this, but his focus of \u201cdoing good\u201d and \u201cserving the poor\u201d was very specific and clear: it was to reawaken their faith and to accompany them in their journey of discovery as to \u201cwho Christ is\u201d for them.<\/p>\n

Eugene was not primarily a philanthropist, or social worker, or NGO \u2013 to use contemporary expressions. His love for the poor was focused on their faith and on their relationship with Jesus the Savior. This is why he founded the Oblates of Mary Immaculate, and gave us this focus as the fundamental reason for our vocation.<\/p>\n

All charitable works of helping the poor were to be seen in this light. In his many years as Bishop of Marseille, he constantly initiated and maintained new charitable causes in order to help the poor and alleviate their suffering in their material or social misery. His focus was always on the Savior \u2013 he ensured that all the works were confessional in identity and that there would be no doubt that it was the Catholic Church of Marseille who was doing this in the name of Jesus. It was a fruit of their faith and was meant to be a tangible sign of evangelization.<\/p>\n

(cf \u201cClose to the People\u201d. Eugene de Mazenod, Man, Missionary and Bishop\u201d in Oblatio III – 2014\/2,see especially pages 185-189: http:\/\/www.omiworld.org\/upload\/oblatio\/oblatio-2-14-txt-stampa.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u201cThe Lord did not tell us to build beautiful churches, but to evangelize the world\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 Oswald J. Smith<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We will spare no effort to awaken or to reawaken the faith in the people to whom we are sent, and we will help them to discover \u201cwho Christ is” CC&RR, Constitution 7 Here we find our Oblate ministry spelt … 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-3165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3165","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=3165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}