{"id":5803,"date":"2024-07-12T01:00:30","date_gmt":"2024-07-11T23:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5803"},"modified":"2024-07-11T18:48:49","modified_gmt":"2024-07-11T16:48:49","slug":"what-makes-a-parish-oblate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5803","title":{"rendered":"WHAT MAKES A PARISH OBLATE?"},"content":{"rendered":"

On the subject of being at the service of the Catholics of Bytown, we know it is quite repugnant to our Fathers to serve in a manner too similar to the parish ministry. They have been known to say on other occasions that they were made to be missionaries, not parish priests. <\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

One should be able to organize their service as a kind of mission but in such a way that our Fathers might never be less than two together with a brother to cook their food; if they could be three or more, that would still be better; let us not overlook that the members of our Society wish and ought to live in community… we do not lack members but we must always take care to employ them in a manner consonant with their vocation.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

Letter to Bp Bruno Guigues, 26 September 1848, EO I n 103<\/em><\/h3>\n

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

Bytown was the first place where the Oblates actually began a diocese and had to staff its parishes. They complained that the Oblate vocation was to be missionaries, not diocesan pastors. Eugene’s response remains pertinent today: Oblates in diocesan parishes approach it as missionaries, with the flavor that the charism gives it.<\/h3>\n

How sad it is to meet many people in Oblate-run parishes who do not even know that there is a difference between their pastor and other pastors – where OMI means little to them except that it always appears after their pastor’s name and nothing further. As members of the Mazenodian Family we have an identity to be proud of, to invite others to participate in and to give a missionary flavor to \u00a0all we do in our parishes.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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