Eugene’s missionary mandate to the first community of Oblates to go to Canada stressed how important it would be to support one another.<\/p>\n
Therefore be mutually encouraging and edify one another. Be united in the same spirit, working together for the faith of the Gospel.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Then, addressing Father Jean Baptiste Honorat, the superior of the community:<\/p>\n
You especially whom we have appointed to lead and direct your brothers, excel more in merit and virtue rather than in being elevated as the one in charge; endeavour more to endear the hearts of those under you by charity and mildness than to lead them by authority.<\/strong><\/p>\n
Strive by the observance of our Rules and the practice of piety towards God to show yourself such that your companions may seek avidly to follow you step by step and to imitate you.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
The rest of the community was charged to be supporting:<\/p>\n
As for you whom Our Saviour has deigned to call, rather than your fellows, to so great a work, endeavour with all your strength to respond to this holy vocation of God and moreover seek carefully to lighten the burden imposed on your Superior by humility, by the practice of mortification, zeal for perfection, assiduity in prayer, respecting him truly for God\u2019s sake, joyous obedience and especially a sincere love.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Letter of obedience to the first Oblate missionaries to Canada, 29 September 1841, EO I n 8<\/em><\/p>\n
In a machine the smooth\u00a0 running of every component is essential for it to achieve its purpose. The same is true in every community that we are a part of, no matter how unimportant our role may appear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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