{"id":5248,"date":"2022-10-12T01:00:16","date_gmt":"2022-10-12T00:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5248"},"modified":"2022-10-06T21:00:50","modified_gmt":"2022-10-06T20:00:50","slug":"what-a-good-influence-will-be-produced-by-the-fine-conduct-of-a-missionary-corps-devoted-to-the-service-of-their-neighbours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5248","title":{"rendered":"WHAT A GOOD INFLUENCE WILL BE PRODUCED BY THE FINE CONDUCT OF A MISSIONARY CORPS DEVOTED TO THE SERVICE OF THEIR NEIGHBOURS"},"content":{"rendered":"

“People listen more willingly to witnesses than to teachers, and if they do listen to teachers, it is because they are witnesses.” Pope St Paul VI<\/span><\/h3>\n

Living in community is the first observable difference between the vocation of a diocesan priest and an Oblate. Eugene underlines this as he writes to Father Guigues, the Superior of the Oblates in Canada. He had been sent to Canada to help the Oblates to assess their missionary response to never-ending pastoral demands and to help them to focus on their vocation to respond and live as part of apostolic community and not as “lone rangers”.<\/h3>\n

The same applies to lay members of the Mazenodian Family: our call is to be family, to be part of a community brought about and sustained by the charism of St Eugene.<\/h3>\n

I strongly approve of your having established regularity in the little community you have formed of the three Fathers and two Brothers, as well as the Fathers working in the lumber camps. That is quite a worthwhile beginning and I do not doubt they will earn respect if they are faithful to your directions and those of the Rule.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

In a city where priests have always lived alone, what a good influence will be produced by the fine conduct of a missionary corps devoted to the service of their neighbours and yet living under an exact and regular discipline! Keep this up as essential.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

Letter to Eugene Guigues in Canada, 19 November, EO I n 59<\/em><\/h3>\n

Today, the same holds true: prospective Oblate vocations want to see what is distinctive about the Oblates being witnessed to in daily life and ministry. In the same way, Associates and others who serve the Mazenodian charism want to be part of a living and visible charism family.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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