{"id":3169,"date":"2016-08-09T05:00:12","date_gmt":"2016-08-09T03:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=3169"},"modified":"2016-07-23T20:18:46","modified_gmt":"2016-07-23T18:18:46","slug":"the-founding-vision-today-spare-no-effort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=3169","title":{"rendered":"THE FOUNDING VISION TODAY: SPARE NO EFFORT"},"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

Fr. M Courvoisier writes:<\/p>\n

\u201cNil linquendum est inausum ut proferatur imperium Christi…\u201d, <\/em>states the text of the Preface of our Constitutions and Rules of 1826. As a literal translation, I suggest: \u201cWe must overlook nothing, leaving nothing undared to advance, to extend the reign of Christ\u201d. This apothegm has sustained and presently sustains the missionary thrust of the Congregation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Eugene\u2019s life was made up of a series of daring actions, of sparing no effort, for his Savior. Breaking away from his mother\u2019s dominating wishes and the high society of Aix, his going to the seminary in Paris unleashed a chain reaction of daring events. He spared no effort in his defense of the rights of the Church in the persecution of Napoleon (nor of any other King of France in later years). He speared no effort in giving himself to the service of prisoners and youth in Aix, and then to the villages of Provence. He dared to invite others to join him and spared no effort to get us to evangelize the rural towns of southern France. He dared to introduce the moral theology of St Alphonsus which stressed mercy and compassion in the face of the prevailing Jansenism in France. He dared to send missionaries to Canada and to the British Isles and Ireland at a time when we were so few and not coping with the demands in France. He spared no effort in the missionary outreach of the Oblates until his death. As Bishop of Marseille, he spared no effort to evangelize his people and to lead them to respond to the never-ending needs of the poor with their many faces.<\/p>\n

Fr. Courvoisier identifies the impelling force behind Eugene\u2019s sparing no effort:<\/p>\n

The source of Eugene de Mazenod\u2019s daring was not found in his temperament, but rather in others\u2019 need for salvation, a need to which his faith in Jesus Christ called him to respond, personally at first, then with his Congregation, \u201cready to leave for the moon, if I have to\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cDaring\u201d in the Dictionary of Oblate Values (http:\/\/www.omiworld.org\/en\/dictionary\/dictionary-of-oblate-values_vol-1_d\/1037\/daring\/<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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

\u201cNever be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 Corrie Ten Boom<\/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 Fr. M Courvoisier writes: \u201cNil linquendum est … 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,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3169","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=3169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}