{"id":5035,"date":"2022-02-16T03:56:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-16T02:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5035"},"modified":"2022-02-16T03:56:00","modified_gmt":"2022-02-16T02:56:00","slug":"we-celebrate-with-great-joy-and-gratitude-the-196th-anniversary-of-the-papal-approbation-of-our-constitutions-and-rules-as-the-missionary-oblates-of-mary-immaculate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5035","title":{"rendered":"WE CELEBRATE WITH GREAT JOY AND GRATITUDE THE 196TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE PAPAL APPROBATION OF OUR CONSTITUTIONS AND RULES AS THE MISSIONARY OBLATES OF MARY IMMACULATE"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>A letter from Father Louis Lougen, Superior General and successor of St Eugene de Mazenod:<\/h3>\n<h3>Dear Brother Oblates, and all our Sisters and Brothers committed to living the Oblate Charism,<\/h3>\n<h3>We celebrate with great joy and gratitude the 196th anniversary of the papal approbation of our Constitutions and Rules as the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate!\u00a0 May we share in the profound conviction of Eugene de Mazenod that this approval was the work of divine Providence.\u00a0 St. Eugene insisted on this in a letter to the Oblates in France on February 18, 1826.\u00a0 In the same letter, filled with the recognition of God\u2019s intervention on our behalf, he recognized: \u201cSomewhat puny as we are, being weak and few in number, we nonetheless have an existence in the Church no less than that of the most celebrated bodies, the most holy societies.\u201d It was with eyes of deep faith, that Eugene saw and believed the Gospel paradox: God chose what appeared to be weak and insignificant for the vast mission of evangelizing the poor&#8230;<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A letter from Father Louis Lougen, Superior General and successor of St Eugene de Mazenod: Dear Brother Oblates, and all our Sisters and Brothers committed to living the Oblate Charism, We celebrate with great joy and gratitude the 196th anniversary &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5035\">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-5035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5035","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=5035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}