{"id":5729,"date":"2024-03-21T01:00:23","date_gmt":"2024-03-21T00:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5729"},"modified":"2024-03-16T22:35:05","modified_gmt":"2024-03-16T21:35:05","slug":"i-reply-with-the-text-of-our-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5729","title":{"rendered":"I REPLY WITH THE TEXT OF OUR RULES"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Eugene had appointed Fr Joseph Burfin as superior of the community in Limoges. Their relationship was not always smooth and they had occasional disagreements. In responding to him Eugene used the Oblate Rule as his guide. The spirit of this Rule is also a source of inspiration to all the members of our Mazenodian Family.<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><em><strong>\u00a0Letter to Fr. Burfin. I am giving him some rules of conduct. I note down some expressions from his letters. I reply with the text of our rules to what he said to me about the tediousness which was being experienced at Limoges.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Diary of Eugene de Mazenod, 5 July 1848, EO XX!<\/em><\/h3>\n<h3><strong>REFLECTION<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h3>&#8220;The Constitutions and Rules set out a privileged means for each Oblate to follow in the footsteps of Jesus Christ. They are inspired by the charism lived by the Founder and his first companions; also, they have received the approval of the Church. Thus, they allow each Oblate to evaluate the quality of his response to his vocation and to become a saint.&#8221; (OMI Constitutions and Rules, Constitution 163)<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eugene had appointed Fr Joseph Burfin as superior of the community in Limoges. Their relationship was not always smooth and they had occasional disagreements. In responding to him Eugene used the Oblate Rule as his guide. The spirit of this &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5729\">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-5729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5729","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=5729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}