{"id":4207,"date":"2020-02-17T00:05:42","date_gmt":"2020-02-16T23:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=4207"},"modified":"2020-02-04T10:20:50","modified_gmt":"2020-02-04T09:20:50","slug":"17-february-1826-the-church-recognizes-that-eugenes-foundation-is-a-god-given-charism-for-us-today-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=4207","title":{"rendered":"17 FEBRUARY 1826: THE CHURCH RECOGNIZES THAT EUGENE\u2019S FOUNDATION IS A GOD-GIVEN CHARISM FOR US TODAY"},"content":{"rendered":"

My dear brothers, on February 17, 1826, yesterday evening, the Sovereign Pontiff Leo XII confirmed the decision of the congregation of Cardinals and specifically approved the Institute, the Rules and Constitutions of the Missionary Oblates of the Most Holy and Immaculate Virgin Mary\u2026<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/strong>The conclusion to be drawn from this, my dear friends and good brothers, is: we must work, with renewed ardour and still more total devotedness, to bring to God all the glory that stems from our efforts and, to the needy souls of our neighbours, salvation in all possible ways; we must attach ourselves heart and soul to our Rules and practice more exactly what they prescribe to us\u2026In the name of God, let us be saints.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Eugene de Mazenod to his Oblate Family, 18 February 1826, EO VII, n. 226<\/em><\/p>\n

Today:<\/p>\n

Writing to the Mazenodian Family, Father Louis Lougen urges us all to be missionaries according to the vision and heart of St. Eugene, wherever we are and whatever our state of life:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The missionary project of Eugene and companions, expressed in a passionate way in the “Preface”, is written in our hearts\u2026 we see its prophetic relevance even today.\u00a0 The Church in our own times, in various ways and in diverse places around the world, has been devastated.\u00a0 We experience a Church which is discredited because of its own ministers’ lack of virtue; a Church divided and polarized by ideologies; a Church whose faithful members very often are being persecuted for their faith; and in other places, a Church where Christians have ceased professing their faith; a Church weakened for lack of the Eucharist, lack of priests and difficult accessibility.<\/em><\/p>\n

This reality cries out with urgency to us and touches our hearts as it did Eugene’s.\u00a0 If there could be missionaries, filled with passion to bring the Gospel to the poor; missionaries inflamed with apostolic zeal; missionaries committed to a holy life of genuine love for others; missionaries who would share a life in common and collaborate together and with others for the Mission of God\u2026 Then, in a short time, there would be reason to hope that people would truly open their lives to God’s Good News.\u00a0 Eugene\u2019s was a prophetic vision, with a profound pastoral hunger to minister to the people forgotten by the Church. (https:\/\/www.omiworld.org\/2020\/02\/02\/the-letter-of-the-superior-general-on-the-194th-anniversary-of-the-papal-approbation-of-the-constitutions-and-rules\/<\/a> )<\/em><\/p>\n

Father Louis Lougen OMI, Superior General<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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