{"id":6007,"date":"2025-03-18T01:00:59","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T00:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=6007"},"modified":"2025-03-17T20:12:05","modified_gmt":"2025-03-17T19:12:05","slug":"to-live-christ-jesus-crucified-constitution-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=6007","title":{"rendered":"TO LIVE CHRIST JESUS CRUCIFIED (Constitution 4)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>\u201cTo live Christ Jesus crucified\u201d is the title given to Constitution 4 in the English version of the Constitutions and Rules.<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\">It portrays clearly what it means to put into practice the statement that \u201cthe cross of Jesus Christ is central to our mission.\u201d Eugene gives us a glimpse of how to do this using the image of a painter. When he was a seminarian he wrote:<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><strong>To make myself like Jesus Crucified<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>It is like the painter who copies a model.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>studies him carefully,<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>concentrates on him,<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>tries to engrave his image in his spirit,<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>then he traces some lines on the paper, which he compares with the original ,<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>then he makes corrections until he is satisfied that it conforms with the original, then he continues\u2026<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Unpublished exercise book in the OMI General Archives<\/em><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\">Eugene was not aiming at transforming himself into an exact photographic reproduction of Jesus the Savior. That is unrealistic and impossible. Like an artist, Eugene\u2019s spirituality consists in focusing intensely on the model, and then allowing that model to express himself through the vision of the artist\u2019s experience and understanding of the human person and of the world in which he lives.<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\">\nEugene invites each of us, members of his charism family, to follow his example and become artists!<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cTo live Christ Jesus crucified\u201d is the title given to Constitution 4 in the English version of the Constitutions and Rules. It portrays clearly what it means to put into practice the statement that \u201cthe cross of Jesus Christ is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=6007\">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-6007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6007","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=6007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6007\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}