{"id":6003,"date":"2025-03-13T01:00:52","date_gmt":"2025-03-13T00:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=6003"},"modified":"2025-03-11T21:27:08","modified_gmt":"2025-03-11T20:27:08","slug":"the-unreserved-gift-we-make-of-ourselves-in-our-oblation-constitution-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=6003","title":{"rendered":"THE UNRESERVED GIFT WE MAKE OF OURSELVES IN OUR OBLATION (Constitution 2)"},"content":{"rendered":"

We strive to reproduce in ourselves the pattern of his life. Thus, we give ourselves to the Father in obedience even unto death and dedicate ourselves to God’s people in unselfish love. Our apostolic zeal is sustained by the unreserved gift we make of ourselves in our oblation, an offering constantly renewed by the challenges of our mission<\/strong>. (Constitution 2)<\/em><\/p>\n

Looking at the Cross on Good Friday, Eugene was overwhelmed the love of God who gave everything for him. The response of this young man was oblation: giving everything to God:<\/h3>\n

What more glorious occupation than to act in everything and for everything only for God, to love him above all else, to love him all the more as one who has loved him too late. <\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

Eugene\u2019s Retreat Journal, December 1814, EO XV n.130<\/em><\/h3>\n

Oblation became the central characteristic of his life as a person, as priest, as founder, as Superior General and as Bishop.<\/h3>\n

I have all my life desired to die a victim of charity. You know that this crown was withheld from me right from the first days of my ministry. The Lord had his designs since He wanted to trust me to give a new family to His Church\u2026<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

Eugene\u2019s letter to Henri Tempier, 12 September 1849, E.O. X n.1018<\/em><\/h3>\n

\nIt is this spirit that all the members of the Oblate Family are called to absorb and assimilate:<\/h3>\n

Our Lord Jesus Christ has left to us the task of continuing the great work of the <\/strong>r<\/em>edemption of mankind.<\/strong><\/em>
\nIt is towards this unique end that all our efforts must tend;<\/strong><\/em>
\nas long as we will not have spent our whole life and given all our blood to achieve this, we having nothing to say;<\/strong><\/em>
\nespecially when as yet we have given only a few drops of sweat and a few spells of fatigue.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

Eugene\u2019s letter to Henri Tempier, 22 August 1817, O.W. VI n. 21<\/em><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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