{"id":3760,"date":"2018-09-21T05:00:14","date_gmt":"2018-09-21T03:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=3760"},"modified":"2018-09-17T23:37:01","modified_gmt":"2018-09-17T21:37:01","slug":"200-years-tightening-the-bonds-so-as-to-have-unity-of-thought-and-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=3760","title":{"rendered":"200 YEARS AGO: TIGHTENING THE BONDS SO AS TO HAVE UNITY OF THOUGHT AND ACTION"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the process of discernment, Eugene placed the situation of establishing a second community and its implications before all the Missionaries. His <em>Memoires<\/em> recall:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h5><strong>I felt that I should summon to an extraordinary council, all those who then comprised my little band, even the younger members who were not yet in major orders. I wanted to convince them that if we were to answer the call to another diocese to establish a new foundation,<\/strong><\/h5>\n<h5><strong>we should have to broaden the Rule we were following,<\/strong><\/h5>\n<h5><strong>draw up more extensive Constitutions,<\/strong><\/h5>\n<h5><strong>tighten our bonds<\/strong><\/h5>\n<h5><strong>and establish a system of hierarchy;<\/strong><\/h5>\n<h5><strong>in other words, coordinate everything in such a way that we should have but one mind and one code of action.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>They all felt as I did and urged me to devote my time earnestly and immediately to the task of drafting the Constitutions and Rules that we should have to adopt.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Bishop de Mazenod, \u201cMemoires.\u201d Cited by Rambert, I, p. 282<\/em><\/p>\n<p>At this stage all the attention was focused on taking on the ministry of the Marian Shrine of Notre Dame du Laus. As we shall see later, the question of the passage to religious life would become a \u201chot potato\u201d for some of the Missionaries who were diocesan priests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the process of discernment, Eugene placed the situation of establishing a second community and its implications before all the Missionaries. His Memoires recall: I felt that I should summon to an extraordinary council, all those who then comprised my &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=3760\">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-3760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3760","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=3760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}