{"id":4063,"date":"2019-09-23T05:00:48","date_gmt":"2019-09-23T03:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=4063"},"modified":"2019-09-11T03:54:07","modified_gmt":"2019-09-11T01:54:07","slug":"oblates-are-more-than-a-group-of-priests-living-under-the-same-roof-as-pastors-from-the-surrounding-neighborhood-might-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=4063","title":{"rendered":"OBLATES ARE MORE THAN A GROUP OF PRIESTS LIVING UNDER THE SAME ROOF, AS PASTORS FROM THE SURROUNDING NEIGHBORHOOD MIGHT DO"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<h5><strong>If one can find in your house no more than a group of priests living under the same roof, as pastors from the surrounding neighbourhood might do, you will be guilty before me, before the Congregation and before God; and the people for whose sake you surrendered your Oblate way of life will go away but little edified and certainly deceived in their expectations.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<h5><strong>And so I recommend you to be quite rigid on all of this, I want no political correctness or human considerations. Everyone knows who you are, so be worthy of your vocation and strive to accept its every least demand.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Letter to Bruno Guigues, 8 October 1835, EO VIII n 547<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Strong words that hold true today. If a ministry conducted by Oblates and by members of the Mazenodian family does not show a distinctive approach and spirit in the light of our charism, then we have missed the point of our vocation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If one can find in your house no more than a group of priests living under the same roof, as pastors from the surrounding neighbourhood might do, you will be guilty before me, before the Congregation and before God; and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=4063\">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-4063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4063","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=4063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4063\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}