{"id":5355,"date":"2023-01-26T01:00:09","date_gmt":"2023-01-26T00:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5355"},"modified":"2023-01-24T03:00:22","modified_gmt":"2023-01-24T02:00:22","slug":"the-first-oblate-mission-in-the-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5355","title":{"rendered":"THE FIRST OBLATE MISSION IN THE UNITED STATES"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>The Missionary Oblates had arrived in the east of Canada in 1841. Now, five years later, they were invited to establish themselves in the west coast of North America. Eugene de Mazenod wrote to an Oblate in France:<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><em><strong>Bishop Blanchet, Bishop of Walla Walla, brother of the Archbishop of Oregon, wants to entrust his interesting mission to our Congregation; he wants the Fathers of our Society to work with him to extend the Kingdom of Jesus Christ in the regions entrusted to his care. By this preferential choice, the work of the Congregation will extend from sea to sea, and by spreading out we will range from Canada to the United States.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Letter to Fr. Pascal Ricard, 8 January 1847. EO I n 74<\/em><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>REFLECTION<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<h3>&#8220;Dear brothers and sisters, I continue to dream of a completely missionary Church, and a new era of missionary activity among Christian communities&#8230; Indeed, would that all of us in the Church were what we already are by virtue of baptism: prophets, witnesses, missionaries of the Lord, by the power of the Holy Spirit, to the ends of the earth!&#8221; (Pope Francis 2022)<\/h3>\n<h3><em>How can I be a witness today in my ordinary everyday life?<\/em><\/h3>\n<h3><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Missionary Oblates had arrived in the east of Canada in 1841. Now, five years later, they were invited to establish themselves in the west coast of North America. Eugene de Mazenod wrote to an Oblate in France: Bishop Blanchet, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5355\">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,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5355","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=5355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}