{"id":3173,"date":"2016-08-11T05:00:08","date_gmt":"2016-08-11T03:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=3173"},"modified":"2016-08-10T16:32:55","modified_gmt":"2016-08-10T14:32:55","slug":"our-founding-vision-today-be-saturated-with-what-we-teach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=3173","title":{"rendered":"OUR FOUNDING VISION TODAY: BE SATURATED WITH WHAT WE TEACH"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Our mission puts us on constant call to respond to the most urgent needs of the Church through various forms of witness and ministry, but especially through proclaiming the Word of God\u2026<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>CC&amp;RR, Constitution 7<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Our reason for existence as Oblates \u2013 and as a Mazenodian Family \u2013 is to proclaim the Word of God. St Eugene, taught us the attitude that is necessary in order to achieve this. In the first Rule of Life he gave to the Oblates, he wrote:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>We shall not attain it, however, unless we renounce our own personal glory, and repress in the depth of our hearts the vain praises of people; in a word, unless like the Apostle we preach Jesus Christ and him crucified &#8220;not with showy speech, but in the demonstration of the Spirit,&#8221; that is to say, unless we make it evident that we are saturated with what we teach, and that we have begun to practice, before attempting to instruct others.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>1818 Rule Part 1, Chapter 3, \u00a71 Preaching<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DeMazenod_200th_banner-English.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-2925 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DeMazenod_200th_banner-English-300x136.jpg\" alt=\"DeMazenod_200th_banner English\" width=\"338\" height=\"153\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DeMazenod_200th_banner-English-300x136.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DeMazenod_200th_banner-English.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 338px) 100vw, 338px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cConviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.\u201d \u00a0\u00a0Thomas Carlyle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our mission puts us on constant call to respond to the most urgent needs of the Church through various forms of witness and ministry, but especially through proclaiming the Word of God\u2026 CC&amp;RR, Constitution 7 Our reason for existence as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=3173\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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-3173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3173","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=3173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}