{"id":5570,"date":"2023-10-03T01:00:25","date_gmt":"2023-10-02T23:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5570"},"modified":"2023-10-01T16:00:39","modified_gmt":"2023-10-01T14:00:39","slug":"the-mazenodian-family-is-charism-centered-not-parish-centered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5570","title":{"rendered":"THE MAZENODIAN FAMILY IS CHARISM-CENTERED NOT PARISH-CENTERED"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><em><strong>I must not keep to myself my intention that our missionaries be not reduced to the status of parish clergy. I would wish to found in England a real community of our Oblates, living according to their Rule within their house and thence going forth as ordered by the Bishops to bring aid where it is deemed useful.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Letter to Bishop Wiseman of Liverpool, 17 August 1847, EO III n 17<\/em><\/h3>\n<h3>Bishop Wiseman had obtained a large house (Grace Dieu) for the Oblates in England so that they could live in community. Eugene was grateful and took the opportunity to remind the bishop that the vocation of the Oblates was primarily to be missionaries and not parish clergy.<\/h3>\n<h3><strong>REFLECTION<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h3>Eugene founded the Missionaries in 1816 to bring the Gospel to the most abandoned &#8211; to those who were the furthest away from Jesus Christ. Over the years that mission has continued to expand and involve every member of the Mazenodian Family. The demands of the mission led us to become very involved in parish ministry but always needing to avoid the danger of becoming predominantly &#8220;parish clergy&#8221; to the detriment of reaching out to the most abandoned in whatever ministry we do.<\/h3>\n<h3>The Mazenodian Family is charism-centered and not parish-centered; it is important to remember this particularly in the case of those groups which exist in parishes which are no longer staffed by the Oblates.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I must not keep to myself my intention that our missionaries be not reduced to the status of parish clergy. I would wish to found in England a real community of our Oblates, living according to their Rule within their &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5570\">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-5570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5570","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=5570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}