{"id":3168,"date":"2016-08-08T05:00:40","date_gmt":"2016-08-08T03:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=3168"},"modified":"2016-07-24T10:17:27","modified_gmt":"2016-07-24T08:17:27","slug":"our-founding-vision-today-we-will-spare-no-effort-to-awaken-faith-in-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=3168","title":{"rendered":"OUR FOUNDING VISION TODAY: WE WILL SPARE NO EFFORT TO AWAKEN FAITH IN PEOPLE"},"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

We were initially founded to \u201cre-awaken the faith in the people\u201d whose faith and religious expression had been stifled as a result of the French Revolution \u2013 primarily by conducting extensive parish missions in the rural villages.<\/p>\n

In the course of this ministry, the Oblates came across people who had never been evangelized, thus necessitating a ministry to \u201cawaken\u201d their sense of God and religious knowledge. It was in the foreign missions, however, that the ministry to awaken the faith of people in Jesus Christ took root. Writing to a missionary sent to North America, Eugene said:<\/p>\n

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Foreign missions compared to our missions in Europe have a special character of a higher kind, because this is the true apostolate of announcing the Good News to nations which have not yet been called to knowledge of the true God and of his son Jesus Christ…. This is the mission of the apostles: \u201cGo, teach all people\u201d this teaching of the truth must penetrate to the most distant nations so that they may be regenerated in the waters of baptism. You are among those to whom Jesus Christ has addressed these words, giving you your mission as he gave their mission to the apostles who were sent to convert our fathers. From this point of view, which is a true one, there is nothing higher than your ministry and that of our other Fathers who are wearing themselves out in the glacial regions to discover the indigenous people\u00a0whom it is their task to save.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Letter to Pascal Ricard, 6 December 1851, EO II n 157<\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201cWe must be global Christians with a global vision because our God is a global God.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 John Stott<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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