{"id":5831,"date":"2024-08-27T01:00:17","date_gmt":"2024-08-26T23:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5831"},"modified":"2024-08-26T02:59:25","modified_gmt":"2024-08-26T00:59:25","slug":"your-ministry-is-to-preach-to-instruct-and-to-confess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5831","title":{"rendered":"YOUR MINISTRY IS TO PREACH, TO INSTRUCT AND TO CONFESS"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>The Bishop of Algiers did not understand the particular charismatic mission of the Oblates. Worried about the situation in which the Oblates found themselves, Eugene encouraged them again a few days later.<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><em><strong>Keep me in touch with everything, calmly and without getting worried or discouraged. We shall see how the Bishop will reply to my letter. On your side, act with a good deal of moderation and respect towards the Bishop, while still trying to make him understand that it is absolutely essential for your chapel to be open to the public, in order for you to exercise your ministry which is to preach, to instruct and to confess.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><em><strong>&#8230; God\u2019s work must always face difficulties. It is true, though, that this ought not to come from the sort of opposition we are faced with today. Tell me about everything and everyone.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Letter to Fr Jean Viala in Algeria, 9 March 1849, EO IV(Africa) n 7<\/em><\/h3>\n<h3><strong>REFLECTION<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h3>The mission of our Oblate Charismatic Family must always be focused on proclaiming and witnessing to who is Jesus Christ is to the most abandoned. We need courage to act &#8220;out of the box&#8221; if necessary.<\/h3>\n<h3>&#8220;If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.&#8221; Thomas Aquinas<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bishop of Algiers did not understand the particular charismatic mission of the Oblates. Worried about the situation in which the Oblates found themselves, Eugene encouraged them again a few days later. Keep me in touch with everything, calmly and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5831\">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-5831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5831","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=5831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5831\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}