{"id":6000,"date":"2025-03-10T02:08:07","date_gmt":"2025-03-10T01:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=6000"},"modified":"2025-03-10T02:11:39","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T01:11:39","slug":"men-and-women-set-apart-for-the-gospel-constitution-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=6000","title":{"rendered":"MEN AND WOMEN SET APART FOR THE GOSPEL (CONSTITUTION 2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><em><strong>We are men \u201cset apart for the Gospel\u201d (Rom 1: 1), men ready to leave everything to be disciples of Jesus. <\/strong><\/em>(Constitution 2)<\/h3>\n<h3>This is the Rule of life of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate, so this statement refers to our vocation of following Jesus.<\/h3>\n<h3>But does it only apply to the vowed Oblates? Definitely not, because at baptism each Christian was \u201cclaimed for Christ our Savior.\u201d In other words, each of us has been \u201cset apart for the Gospel\u201d &#8211; every baptised man or woman is called to make the fundamental option of putting God in the first place. \u201cTo whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life (John 6,68).\u201d With the Gospel as our guide, we choose to leave everything that prevents us from communion with him and with one another.<\/h3>\n<h3>Each member of the Oblate Charismatic Family is called upon to make the choice every day all those things that make of every day\u2019s activity a step in following Jesus and making him known<\/h3>\n<h3><strong>A PRAYER<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h3>&#8220;The choice for your way has to be made every moment of my life.<\/h3>\n<h3>I have to choose thoughts that are your thoughts<\/h3>\n<h3>Words that are your words, and actions that are your actions.\u201d<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: right;\">(Henri Nouwen &#8211; https:\/\/www.thespiritlife.net )<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are men \u201cset apart for the Gospel\u201d (Rom 1: 1), men ready to leave everything to be disciples of Jesus. (Constitution 2) This is the Rule of life of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate, so this statement refers &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=6000\">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-6000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6000","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=6000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6000\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}