{"id":5274,"date":"2022-10-31T01:00:25","date_gmt":"2022-10-31T00:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5274"},"modified":"2022-10-27T02:26:25","modified_gmt":"2022-10-27T00:26:25","slug":"the-oblate-cross-a-powerful-means-leading-to-every-good-undertaking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5274","title":{"rendered":"THE OBLATE CROSS: A POWERFUL MEANS LEADING TO EVERY GOOD UNDERTAKING"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">&#8220;God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, &#8216;I love you.&#8221; (Billy Graham)<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3>From the earliest days of the Missionary Oblates, Eugene started the beautiful custom of handing on the Oblate Cross of a deceased Oblate to a new Oblate on the day of his life-commitment, the day of his perpetual oblation. It is an honor to receive the Cross of a missionary and to continue his dedicated service as a cooperator of the Savior.<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><em><strong>Brother Pulicani is admitted to profession. Father Tempier will send to L\u2019Osier the crucifix of our dear Father Moreau; it is to be given to this young Brother, so that it may be a powerful means leading him to every good undertaking.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Letter to Father Santoni, Master of Novices at N.-D. de L\u2019Osier, 16 March 1846, EO X n 892<\/em><\/h3>\n<h3>From our Constitutions and Rules: &#8221; <em>The Oblate cross which is received at perpetual profession is a constant reminder of the love of the Saviour who wishes to draw all hearts to himself and sends us out as his co-workers.<\/em>&#8221; (C 63)<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, &#8216;I love you.&#8221; (Billy Graham) From the earliest days of the Missionary Oblates, Eugene started the beautiful custom of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5274\">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-5274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5274","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=5274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}