{"id":5991,"date":"2025-03-03T04:24:47","date_gmt":"2025-03-03T03:24:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5991"},"modified":"2025-03-03T04:24:47","modified_gmt":"2025-03-03T03:24:47","slug":"our-rule-as-true-brothers-and-sisters-of-the-oblate-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5991","title":{"rendered":"OUR RULE AS TRUE BROTHERS AND SISTERS OF THE OBLATE FAMILY"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>In preparation for next year\u2019s two hundredth anniversary of the pontifical approbation of our Rule and official recognition of our charism, join St Eugene (and me) in spending some time exploring he Rule and its contents.<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cSt Eugene speaks\u201d to us through the Rule of Life, and so we invite him to join our pilgrimage in communion, as instruments of hope.<\/p>\n<p>Our current Constitutions and Rules begin with a Foreword. Today, with our awareness that the Oblate charism is lived by many different vocations, we can adapt the vocabulary of its message (but not the underlying charism) to our own way of life.<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><em><strong>Our Lord Jesus Christ, when the appointed time came, was sent by the Father and filled with the Spirit \u201cto bring the good news to the poor, to proclaim liberty to captives and to the blind new sight, to set the downtrodden free, to proclaim the Lord&#8217;s year of favour\u201d (Lk 4: 18.19). He called men to become disciples and share in his mission; in the Church, he continues to call others to follow him.<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong>Saint Eugene de Mazenod heard that call. Burning with love for Jesus and his Church, he suffered deeply on seeing how God&#8217;s people were abandoned. He chose to become \u201cthe servant and priest of the poor\u201d and to give his life wholly to them.<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong>Faced with an overwhelming task, he gathered a few priests around him, men who shared his impassioned zeal for the most abandoned\u2026 \u201cLive together as brothers,\u201d he urged them; \u201cStrive to imitate the virtues and example of our Saviour Jesus Christ principally through preaching the Word of God to the poor.\u201d <\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><em><strong>At his persuading, they committed themselves permanently to the preaching of missions, binding themselves by religious vows. Soon afterwards, he decided to receive Brothers as true sons of the family. Thus began the Congregation of the Missionary Oblates of the Most Holy and Immaculate Virgin Mary. \u00a0<\/strong><\/em>(CCRR Foreword)<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\">\nEach of us is a true son or daughter of Eugene\u2019s family. Let\u2019s take some time to reflect on these words and let them make a difference to our daily life\u2026<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In preparation for next year\u2019s two hundredth anniversary of the pontifical approbation of our Rule and official recognition of our charism, join St Eugene (and me) in spending some time exploring he Rule and its contents. \u201cSt Eugene speaks\u201d to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5991\">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-5991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5991","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=5991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5991\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}