{"id":3209,"date":"2016-09-09T05:00:10","date_gmt":"2016-09-09T03:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=3209"},"modified":"2016-09-05T21:12:01","modified_gmt":"2016-09-05T19:12:01","slug":"our-founding-vision-today-awareness-of-our-own-shortcomings-humbles-us-yet-gods-power-makes-us-confident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=3209","title":{"rendered":"OUR FOUNDING VISION TODAY: AWARENESS OF OUR OWN SHORTCOMINGS HUMBLES US, YET GOD’S POWER MAKES US CONFIDENT"},"content":{"rendered":"
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We will always be close to the people with whom we work, taking into account their values and aspirations. To seek out new ways for the Word of God to reach their hearts often calls for daring; to present Gospel demands in all clarity should never intimidate us.<\/strong><\/h5>\n
Awareness of our own shortcomings humbles us, yet God’s power makes us confident as we strive to bring all people \u2013 especially the poor \u2013 to full consciousness of their dignity as human beings and as sons and daughters of God.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n

CC&RR, Constitution 8<\/em><\/p>\n

Our Rule of Life is a faithful echo of the sentiments of Eugene\u2019s preaching \u2013 from the time of his earliest sermon as a young priest in Aix<\/p>\n

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Each Sunday in Lent I have preached in Provencal at 6:00 am, in the Magdalene church for the instruction of the people. As you can imagine curiosity brought lots of others besides country-folk; but the latter and the low class of society, whom I had principally in mind, turned up in such numbers that I had reason to hope that it will in his goodness have rebounded to God\u2019s glory.<\/strong><\/h5>\n
When I think how easy I found it to express myself in a tongue which I have never made great use of, as I have scarcely lived in the place, I am tempted to see in this a kind of miracle. There is nothing to be surprised at, however, as I used to ascend the pulpit as I descended from the altar, and you know that I did not forget to beg the Master present to speak himself by my mouth.<\/strong><\/h5>\n
The fact is that on Saturday evening, as I was thinking over what I had to say, I found I could not string together three words in Provencal\u2026<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Letter to Forbin Janson, 9 April 1813, EO XV n. 116<\/em><\/p>\n

Awareness of his own shortcomings humbled him, yet God’s power took over and Eugene was able to touch the lives of the poor with God\u2019s transforming love.<\/p>\n

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\u201cCompassion is not pity … compassion never considers an object as weak or inferior. Compassion, one might say, works from a strength born of awareness of shared we
\n<\/a>akness, and not from someone else’s weakness. And from the awareness of the mutuality of us all.\u201d\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0Matthew Fox<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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