{"id":3174,"date":"2016-08-12T05:00:53","date_gmt":"2016-08-12T03:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=3174"},"modified":"2016-08-12T00:52:01","modified_gmt":"2016-08-11T22:52:01","slug":"our-founding-vision-today-to-be-in-harmony-with-the-word-of-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=3174","title":{"rendered":"OUR FOUNDING VISION TODAY: TO BE IN HARMONY WITH THE WORD OF GOD"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nOur 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 which finds its fulfilment in the celebration of the sacraments and in service to others.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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

The \u201cmost urgent needs of the Church\u201d was for the first responders themselves to be firmly focused on a personal relationship with Jesus Christ the Savior, so as to be his effective witnesses and ministers.<\/p>\n

The Church\u2019s urgent need 200 years ago was for its members, ravaged by the French Revolution, to be reminded (or taught for the first time) that they were members of the Body of Christ \u2013 that they belonged to Him as His people because He had opened His arms on the Cross for them. 200 hundred years later, a comparable situation exists around the world today. The Church is still ravaged either through direct persecution, or through indifference, relativism or ignorance. The urgent needs continue to exist.<\/p>\n

Of the \u201cvarious forms\u201d of Oblate response to this situation, proclaiming the Word of God was, and continues to be, the most important. Preaching, teaching, accompanying the people in their daily lives with the light and guidance of the Word, and accompanying them in immersion into the Word of God. \u201cYour Word is a lamp for my steps and a light for my path\u201d Psalm 118<\/p>\n

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\u201cDo not have your concert first, and then tune your instrument afterwards. Begin the day with the Word of God and prayer, and get first of all into harmony with Him.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 Hudson Taylor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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