{"id":5608,"date":"2023-11-24T01:00:57","date_gmt":"2023-11-24T00:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5608"},"modified":"2023-11-18T02:53:23","modified_gmt":"2023-11-18T01:53:23","slug":"they-are-called-to-evangelize-the-poor-and-work-for-the-salvation-of-the-most-abandoned-souls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5608","title":{"rendered":"THEY ARE CALLED TO EVANGELIZE THE POOR AND WORK FOR THE SALVATION OF THE MOST ABANDONED SOULS"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>The first group of missionaries, temporarily under the leadership of Fr Court\u00e8s, arrived in Limoges in early November. To prepare the bishop for this, Eugene wrote to him to make the mission of the Oblates very clear.<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><em><strong>Your Lordship will allow me to make an observation in regard to what you tell me that at Limoges you need not only virtue but also talent among our Missionaries. I agree if it is a question of talent suited to the ministry that our Missionaries must fulfill.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><em><strong>They are called to evangelize the poor and work for the salvation of the most abandoned souls.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><em><strong>To fulfill this ministry appropriately, they must first of all possess virtue and then talent in accord with the needs of those whom they are to lead back to God. That is all we must require.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Letter to Bishop Buissas of Limoges, 24 October 1847, EO XIII n 118<\/em><\/h3>\n<h3><strong>REFLECTION<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h3>This letter stresses the heart of the Mazenodian charism: be in relationship with God and live a virtuous life so as to be able to lead the most abandoned to that same relationship. It is the witness of our lives that evangelizes.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first group of missionaries, temporarily under the leadership of Fr Court\u00e8s, arrived in Limoges in early November. To prepare the bishop for this, Eugene wrote to him to make the mission of the Oblates very clear. Your Lordship will &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5608\">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-5608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5608","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=5608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}