{"id":3813,"date":"2018-11-22T05:00:11","date_gmt":"2018-11-22T03:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=3813"},"modified":"2018-11-20T04:55:16","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T02:55:16","slug":"200-years-ago-nota-bene-dressing-his-missionaries-from-head-to-toe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=3813","title":{"rendered":"200 YEARS AGO:\u00a0NOTA BENE &#8211; DRESSING HIS MISSIONARIES FROM HEAD TO TOE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>\u201cIt is only after having dressed his missionaries from head to foot in this solid armor of virtue that Bishop de Mazenod allows himself to say to them: then, full of confidence \u2026.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>YENVEUX, A. Les saintes R\u00e8gles de la Congr\u00e9gation des Missionnaires Oblats de Marie Immacul\u00e9e d\u2019apr\u00e8s les \u00e9crits, les le\u00e7ons et l\u2019esprit de Mgr. C.J.E. de Mazenod,<br \/>\nParis, 1903, vol. 1, p. 17<\/p>\n<p>To answer the question as to what the Missionary must do in order to become an apostolic man \u2013 a co-operator of the Savior, Eugene spells out the \u201cvirtues and examples of our Savior Jesus Christ\u201d that they must \u201cstrive to imitate:\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h5><strong>We must work seriously to become saints, walk courageously in the footsteps of so many apostles who have left us such fine examples of virtue in the exercise of a ministry to which, like them, we are called;<\/strong><\/h5>\n<h5><strong>renounce ourselves totally,<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>maintain in view exclusively the glory of God, the building of the Church, the salvation of souls;<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>renew ourselves constantly in the spirit of our vocation;<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>live in a habitual state of self-denial and<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>in an unremitting determination to achieve perfection,<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>working unstintingly to become humble,<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>gentle,<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>obedient,<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>lovers of poverty,<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>repentant,<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>mortified,<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>detached from the world and our families,<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>brimming with zeal,<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>ready to sacrifice our goods, our talents, our rest, our persons and our lives for the love of Jesus Christ, the service of the Church and the sanctification of our neighbor.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>1818 Rule, Part One, Chapter One, \u00a73. Nota Bene.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Missions, 78 (1951) p. 16<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIt is only after having dressed his missionaries from head to foot in this solid armor of virtue that Bishop de Mazenod allows himself to say to them: then, full of confidence \u2026.\u201d YENVEUX, A. Les saintes R\u00e8gles de la &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=3813\">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-3813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3813","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=3813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3813\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}