{"id":3804,"date":"2018-11-12T06:01:27","date_gmt":"2018-11-12T04:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=3804"},"modified":"2018-11-12T06:01:27","modified_gmt":"2018-11-12T04:01:27","slug":"200-years-ago-nota-bene-what-more-sublime-purpose-than-that-of-their-institute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=3804","title":{"rendered":"200 YEARS AGO: NOTA BENE &#8211; \u00a0WHAT MORE SUBLIME PURPOSE THAN THAT OF THEIR INSTITUTE!"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<h5><strong>What more sublime purpose than that of their Institute!<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>He restates, in different words, the three foundation pillars of our vocation that he had written in our defining Article one.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h5><strong>NOTA BENE \u2013 TAKE NOTE! Their founder is Jesus Christ, the very Son of God<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Congregation has its origin in the call of Jesus \u2013 he is the Founder. Each Missionary forms part of this body because of an awareness of a personal invitation from Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h5><strong>NOTA BENE \u2013 TAKE NOTE! their first fathers are the Apostles.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>We are called into community. But not just as any community, but as a community that follows the example of the apostles. More than following , it is an insertion into the Gospel community of Jesus and the apostles and first disciples. It is a continuation of that community.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h5><strong>NOTA BENE \u2013 TAKE NOTE! They are called to be the Savior\u2019s co-workers, the co-redeemers of mankind<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The third pillar is the mission: that of leading people to the same experience of salvation that the Missionaries were living. Thus the short definition of the Missionary is: \u201cco-operator of the Savior\u201d \u2013 nothing less than a co-redeemer!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>NOTA BENE. What more sublime purpose than that of their Institute!<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I feel quite breathless every time that I meditate on these words. If we live this reality in a convincing way, what a missionary light our vocation calls us to! If we really live these words in their fullness, what a difference we would make to the world\u2026 NOTA BENE \u2013 TAKE NOTE!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What more sublime purpose than that of their Institute! He restates, in different words, the three foundation pillars of our vocation that he had written in our defining Article one. NOTA BENE \u2013 TAKE NOTE! Their founder is Jesus Christ, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=3804\">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-3804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3804","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=3804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3804\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}