Our Mazenodian vocation is to live the life of Jesus and the apostles. It is to do their ministry: to make Jesus Christ present in our everyday activities. It is the practice the virtues of Jesus as he taught them to his apostles – and to us through them.<\/p>\n
\nSo one must live their life, exercise their ministry, practice their virtues? There is no room for doubt: Imitating these illustrious models, the missionaries will give one portion of their life to prayer, recollection, and contemplation, while living together in the seclusion of God’s house.<\/strong><\/h5>\n
The other portion of their life they will zealously devote to the works of the exterior ministry, such as to missions, preaching, the hearing of confessions, teaching catechism, directing the young, visiting the sick and prisoners, giving spiritual retreats, and other works of this kind.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Retreat notes, October 1831, EO XV n. 163<\/em><\/p>\n
In order to achieve this we need to work at an equilibrium between action and quiet, busy-ness and reflection, activity-time and prayer-time. The aim is to transform all our \u201cdoing\u201d and \u201cbeing\u201d into God-time.<\/p>\n
The activities of the Oblate missionaries are listed above, but the text is for all of us who follow the charism of St Eugene. Which of my daily activities can I add to the list as a baptized lay-person in today\u2019s world?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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