{"id":5378,"date":"2023-02-17T01:00:25","date_gmt":"2023-02-17T00:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5378"},"modified":"2023-02-08T03:24:45","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T02:24:45","slug":"february-17-a-source-of-gratitude-and-propulsion-for-every-member-of-the-mazenodian-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5378","title":{"rendered":"FEBRUARY 17: A SOURCE OF GRATITUDE AND PROPULSION FOR EVERY MEMBER OF THE MAZENODIAN FAMILY?"},"content":{"rendered":"

On 17 February the Mazenodian Family marks the day when in 1826 Pope Leo XII, after a process of discernment, recognized that the group brought into existence by Eugene de Mazenod was a creation of God. Eugene understood the<\/h3>\n

steady determination of the Holy Father, whom nothing has been able to prevent from the first thought with which the Holy Spirit inspired him on the first day that I knelt at his feet and presented to him the plan of this enterprise which now we can call divine\u2026<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

Letter to all the Oblates, 18 February 1826, EO VII, n. 226<\/em><\/h3>\n

The Pope recognized that it is a charism of the Holy Spirit. So it is an act of God that we celebrate!<\/h3>\n

For ten years this small group of men had survived by their founding vision, surviving hardships, persecution, defections and near-extermination, and yet never giving up. They believed that their vocation came from God, that their ideal was God-inspired and that their mission to the most-abandoned was God-given. The discernment of the Church confirmed this and injected new life and vigor into them. It was not meant to degenerate into a moment of back-slapping backward-looking community festivity. It was an injection of divine life that propelled the Oblates.<\/h3>\n

REFLECTION<\/strong><\/h3>\n

May this 17 February be a moment of grace to rediscover the value of our God-given life as calling us into courageous new horizons<\/em><\/h3>\n

May it be a moment to give thanks for the gift of over 200 years of dedicated service of bring the Gospel to the most abandoned.<\/em><\/h3>\n

May it be a grace-filled moment to re-value, at our local levels, a Mazenodian family, where every way of life receives and is equally important in belonging and cooperating in God’s gift of the charism.<\/em><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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