{"id":3183,"date":"2016-08-18T05:00:18","date_gmt":"2016-08-18T03:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=3183"},"modified":"2016-08-18T03:06:51","modified_gmt":"2016-08-18T01:06:51","slug":"our-founding-vision-today-allow-the-word-of-god-to-convert-and-transform-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=3183","title":{"rendered":"OUR FOUNDING VISION TODAY: ALLOW THE WORD OF GOD TO CONVERT AND TRANSFORM US"},"content":{"rendered":"
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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 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 preaching of parish missions, for which we were originally founded, was all about preaching the Word of God and inviting people to respond by celebrating the sacraments. The goal of the Missionaries was to have every person celebrate the sacrament of reconciliation. It was an invitation to a prolonged intimate encounter with the Savior acting through the priest as spiritual guide and instrument of forgiveness and new life. The confessional was to be the place of transparent encounter between a person in their brokenness and the healing mercy of God. One of Eugene\u2019s earliest sermons gives this message:<\/p>\n

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In the same way the preacher of the Gospel, is saddened at the sight of sinners sinking in the dreadful quagmire of their evil deeds, bogged down with no desire of getting out. They futilely try all that their gentle charity inspires them to do to have them return onto the way.<\/strong><\/h5>\n
Finally seeing their obstinate determination to be lost, the preachers make the most frightening truths re-echo in their ears. They arm themselves with the whip of the holy Word, and increase their blows until at last with a huge effort these sinners get out of the mud and free themselves.<\/strong><\/h5>\n
Then it is with open arms that the ministers of Jesus Christ press them close to their hearts and take delight in pouring ointment on all their wounds to ease them.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Instruction at the Madeleine, preached in Provencal, on the fourth Sunday of Lent 1813, EO XV n 115.<\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201cTo get a man soundly saved it is not enough to put on him a pair of new trousers, to give him regular work, or even to give him a university education. These things are all outside a man, and if the inside remains unchanged you have wasted your labor. You must in some way or other graft upon the man’s nature a new nature, which has in it the element of the Divine.\u201d\u00a0 William Booth, founder of the Salvation Army<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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