{"id":5928,"date":"2024-12-12T01:31:27","date_gmt":"2024-12-12T00:31:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5928"},"modified":"2024-12-12T01:31:27","modified_gmt":"2024-12-12T00:31:27","slug":"our-founding-vision-today-missionaries-to-the-poor-according-to-the-example-of-mary-who-was-fully-attentive-to-the-needs-of-the-poor-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5928","title":{"rendered":"OUR FOUNDING VISION TODAY: MISSIONARIES TO THE POOR ACCORDING TO THE EXAMPLE OF MARY, WHO WAS FULLY ATTENTIVE TO THE NEEDS OF THE POOR"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><em>We are members of the prophetic Church. While recognizing our own need for conversion, we bear witness to God\u2019s holiness and justice. We announce the liberating presence of Jesus Christ and the new world born in his resurrection. We will hear and make heard the clamour of the voiceless, which is a cry to God who brings down the mighty from their thrones and exalts the lowly (cf. Lk 1: 52). (<\/em>OMI Rule, Constitution 9)<\/h3>\n<h3>The wording of this Constitution startled some when the time came for its ecclesiastical approval. Father Jett\u00e9, who was the Superior General, responded in the name of the Oblates:<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cThe allusion to Mary\u2019s canticle is to be read in the biblical perspective of salvation. As Oblates of Mary Immaculate we love to live our vocation of missionaries to the poor according to the example of her who was fully attentive to the needs of the little ones and the poor among God\u2019s People. On January 30, 1979, in his homily at the shrine of Zapopan (Mexico), Pope John Paul II did not hesitate to quote this same passage when he was speaking of the Christian commitment to serving the poorest of the poor\u201d (R\u00e9ponse aux Observations de la S.C.R.I.S., April 16, 1982)\u201d F.\u00a0Jett\u00e9,\u00a0The Apostolic Man, p. 103<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><em>Mary Immaculate is patroness of our Congregation. Open to the Spirit, she consecrated herself totally as lowly handmaid to the person and work of the Saviour. She received Christ in order to share him with all the world, whose hope he is. In her, we recognize the model of the Church\u2019s faith and of our own. <\/em>(OMI Rule, Constitution 10)<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are members of the prophetic Church. While recognizing our own need for conversion, we bear witness to God\u2019s holiness and justice. We announce the liberating presence of Jesus Christ and the new world born in his resurrection. We will &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5928\">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-5928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5928","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=5928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5928\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}