{"id":5053,"date":"2022-03-03T02:00:24","date_gmt":"2022-03-03T01:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5053"},"modified":"2022-02-25T22:34:51","modified_gmt":"2022-02-25T21:34:51","slug":"we-aim-to-form-good-members-of-our-congregation-who-absorb-its-spirit-and-adhere-to-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5053","title":{"rendered":"WE AIM TO FORM GOOD MEMBERS OF OUR CONGREGATION WHO ABSORB ITS SPIRIT AND ADHERE TO IT"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eugene was always conscious that the Missionary Oblates were not his creation, but a gift of the Holy Spirit. For this reason he insisted on the importance of understanding and living by its spirit.<\/h3>\n

Father Temper was due to go for an official visit to the community where the novitiate was situated.<\/h3>\n

At L\u2019Osier, you will have to recommend that more seriousness be required from the novices. They are all young, inclined therefore to be unrestrained and to childish pranks. I insist that this defect be corrected and I pray that some attention be given to what I recommend. That is in the order of things, there as everywhere else in the Congregation.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

Another area which you will have to remedy is that we be not content merely to form good clerics, good religious if you will; but that we aim to form good members of our Congregation who absorb its spirit and adhere to it.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

\u00a0If my information is correct, nothing is being done to obtain this result; and we must return to this again and again to form that kind of second nature which will produce such good results.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

Letter to Henri Tempier, 14 August 1844, EO X n 851<\/em><\/h3>\n

He was concerned that not sufficient time and effort was being spent on this task of self-understanding of our identity. Today we use the Biblical expression \u201ccharism\u201d to talk about this spirit. As members of the Mazenodian Family we are urged to absorb the spirit of our charism and to let it be our daily guide.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Eugene was always conscious that the Missionary Oblates were not his creation, but a gift of the Holy Spirit. For this reason he insisted on the importance of understanding and living by its spirit. Father Temper was due to go … Continue reading →<\/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-5053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5053","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=5053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5053\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}