{"id":4919,"date":"2021-10-22T02:00:22","date_gmt":"2021-10-22T00:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=4919"},"modified":"2021-10-15T13:42:36","modified_gmt":"2021-10-15T11:42:36","slug":"how-the-lord-moved-the-spirit-and-the-heart-of-the-sovereign-pontiff-to-grant-me-what-he-had-thus-far-refused-to-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=4919","title":{"rendered":"HOW THE LORD MOVED THE SPIRIT AND THE HEART OF THE SOVEREIGN PONTIFF TO GRANT ME WHAT HE HAD THUS FAR REFUSED TO OTHERS"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eighteen years earlier, in 1825, Eugene had gone to Rome to try to obtain official recognition and approbation of the Oblate\u00a0 Congregation. It was at the time when the Vatican was not approving any new religious congregations. Eugene now recalled how was kneeling next to the Pope and enthusiastically describing all the marvels that God was working through the Missionaries in Provence. At a certain moment during the narration, the Pope closed his eyes in prayer, during which ” the Lord moved the spirit and the heart” of the Pope. Eugene recounts what happened.<\/h3>\n

Your Eminence, it would take too long to narrate how the Lord moved the spirit and the heart of the Sovereign Pontiff to grant me what he had thus far refused to others. Suffice it to say that the Holy Father did not merely make his will known to the Archpriest Adinolfi, at that time replacing the Secretary of the Sacred Congregation of Bishops and Religious, by telling him \u201cWe wish to approve it\u201d, but he himself selected the Eminent Cardinals who were to examine the Constitutions.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

These Cardinals unanimously expressed their favourable opinion on February 15, 1826 and asked the Holy Father to approve them by Apostolic Letter. The Holy Father placed his seal of approval on the Congregation as well as its Rules and Constitutions on February 17 and ordered the Apostolic Letters to be sent under the form of brief. As I indicated earlier, these letters were sent on March 21, 1826.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

Letter to Cardinal Fransoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith, 6 November 1843, EO V n 3<\/em><\/h3>\n

The Pope had discerned that the Oblate Congregation came from God and was brought about through the work of the Holy Spirit and was not the invention of Eugene. Today we recognize this as a charism: the Mazenodian charism as a gift to the Church in her mission of evangelization. This is the heritage of every member of the Mazenodian Family.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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