{"id":5678,"date":"2024-01-29T01:00:29","date_gmt":"2024-01-29T00:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5678"},"modified":"2024-01-28T16:24:09","modified_gmt":"2024-01-28T15:24:09","slug":"being-part-of-the-life-of-the-church-in-a-vague-and-ambiguous-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5678","title":{"rendered":"BEING PART OF THE LIFE OF THE CHURCH IN A VAGUE AND AMBIGUOUS WAY"},"content":{"rendered":"

Your Lordship is aware that I am speaking frankly and freely. A Bishop who is as far advanced as you are in the ways of God will understand better than I know how to express the importance of the considerations that I have only indicated.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

You are the father, the protector and the counselor of our Oblates; no one should be more concerned than you that they be worthy of their vocation at all times, since it is in this way that they will be able to render themselves truly useful to your diocese where they will certainly do good, as they are doing in every place where they are established.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

Letter to Bishop Buissas of Limoges, to whose diocese he had sent Oblates, 20 February 1848, EO XIII n 119<\/em><\/h3>\n

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

Eugene expected the Oblates to have a special relationship with the Bishop in whose diocese they ministered, and that the Bishop be their protector. An aspect of this was that the Bishop respect their charism in the ministry entrusted to them.<\/h3>\n

Until the Second Vatican Council this relationship was blurred in many dioceses, thus in 1978 the Vatican issued a document highlighting the importance of a clear mutual recognition of the respective charismatic roles of the bishops and of religious congregations in their diocese.<\/h3>\n

“In this hour of cultural evolution and ecclesial renewal, therefore, it is necessary to preserve the identity of each institute so securely, that the danger of an ill-defined situation be avoided, lest religious, failing to give due consideration to the particular mode of action proper to their character, become part of the life of the Church in a vague and ambiguous way.” (The Church document Mutuae Relationes<\/em> art 11)<\/h3>\n

Today we are also in the process of reflecting on and correcting the “vague and ambiguous way” in which the lay members of the Mazenodian Family share in the charism and vocation of St Eugene.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Your Lordship is aware that I am speaking frankly and freely. A Bishop who is as far advanced as you are in the ways of God will understand better than I know how to express the importance of the considerations … Continue reading →<\/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-5678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5678","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=5678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}