{"id":5987,"date":"2025-02-26T03:25:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-26T02:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5987"},"modified":"2025-02-26T03:25:00","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T02:25:00","slug":"the-rule-as-a-teacher-that-leads-us-to-embrace-the-cross","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5987","title":{"rendered":"THE RULE AS A TEACHER THAT LEADS \u00a0US TO EMBRACE THE CROSS"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><em><strong>Can I ever forget the sight of the Cross on that Good Friday?<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>St Eugene de Mazenod<\/em><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 40px; text-align: left;\">At the sight of the Cross Eugene understood that he was poor and needed the Savior. His years of \u201csearching for happiness\u201d finally found their meaning and their goal. The rest of his long and eventful life hinged on the sight of the cross and on working to bring everyone to its same saving vision.<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 40px; text-align: left;\">The Oblate Rule becomes a teacher that leads of every member of our Charismatic Family to embrace the Cross and the salvation it offers. Whoever embraces it, automatically embraces the Savior. We wear it proudly and it spurs us to be transformed into this sign and means of salvation for others.<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 40px; text-align: left;\">Every time I look at my Oblate Cross I am reminded of the statue of Jesus, whose arms were blown off in war and never replaced, and that has a plaque with the message: \u201cI have no arms but yours.\u201d<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can I ever forget the sight of the Cross on that Good Friday? St Eugene de Mazenod At the sight of the Cross Eugene understood that he was poor and needed the Savior. His years of \u201csearching for happiness\u201d finally &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5987\">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-5987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5987","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=5987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5987\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}