As these reflections will pause until 13 January, I wish each of you a Happy Feastday for December 8, a fruitful Advent and all the blessings of Christmas.<\/p>\n
We ask Mary Immaculate to accompany us during this period:<\/p>\n
\n\u2028Mary Immaculate is patroness of our Congregation. Open to the Spirit, she consecrated herself totally as lowly handmaid to the person and work of the\u00a0Savior.<\/strong>
\n\u2028She received Christ in order to share him with all the world, whose hope he is. In her, we recognize the model of the Church\u2019s faith and of our own.<\/strong>
\n\u2028We shall always look on her as our mother.<\/strong>
\nIn the joys and sorrows of our missionary life, we feel close to her who is the Mother of Mercy.<\/strong>
\nWherever our ministry takes us, we will strive to instil genuine devotion to the Immaculate Virgin who prefigures God\u2019s final victory over all evil.\u00a0(<\/strong>OMI Rule of Life, \u00a0CC&RR Constitution 10)<\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\nDuring our pause I invite you to consult the 2188 reflections on this website which have been published over the past 9 years (hard to believe that it has been this long!) and to use the website\u2019s \u201csearch\u201d engine to look up themes – https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n
I also encourage you to consult the OMIWORLD website for some daily reflections:\u00a0https:\/\/www.omiworld.org\/daily-inspirations\/\u00a0<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n
You may wish to read the actual writings of St Eugene online. You can find these in chronological order at\u00a0https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?page_id=2362<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n
I wish you a Blessed Christmas and every blessing during 2020.<\/p>\n
Frank Santucci OMI<\/p>\n
Kusenberger Chair of Oblate Studies,<\/p>\n
Oblate School of Theology, San Antonio, Texas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
As these reflections will pause until 13 January, I wish each of you a Happy Feastday for December 8, a fruitful Advent and all the blessings of Christmas. We ask Mary Immaculate to accompany us during this period: \u2028Mary Immaculate … Continue reading