{"id":6027,"date":"2025-04-02T00:22:59","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T22:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=6027"},"modified":"2025-04-02T00:36:58","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T22:36:58","slug":"the-poor-for-the-oblate-family-are-those-whose-condition-cries-out-for-salvation-constitution-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=6027","title":{"rendered":"THE POOR FOR THE OBLATE FAMILY ARE THOSE WHOSE CONDITION CRIES OUT FOR SALVATION (Constitution 5)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\n<em>Wherever we work, our mission is especially to those people whose condition cries out for salvation and for the hope which only Jesus Christ can fully bring. These are the poor with their many faces; we give them our preference.<\/em> (Constitution 5)<\/h3>\n<h3>\nEugene used the expressions, \u201cpoor\u201d and \u201cmost abandoned\u201d interchangeably, always referring to the same people. The \u201cmost abandoned\u201d were usually the materially poor who did not have the means to receive spiritual help. As Eugene and the early Oblates became increasingly involved in this mission, so did their horizons open to include all groups who were in need of \u201cthe hope which only Jesus Christ can fully bring.\u201d<br \/>\nInitially, when the young Eugene went to the seminary, he expressed his reason for doing so as:<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 80px;\">\n<em><strong>As the Lord is my witness, what he wants of me, \u2026 is that I devote myself especially to his service and try to reawaken the faith that is becoming extinct amongst the poor\u2026<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Letter to his mother, June 29, 1808, EO XIV, n. 27<\/em><\/h3>\n<h3>\nAfter his ordination, in his first Lenten sermon to the poor of Aix en Provence:<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><em><strong>The poor, that precious portion of the Christian family, cannot be left in their ignorance. So important did our divine Savior consider them that he took it upon himself to instruct them; and he gave as proof that his mission was divine the fact that the poor were being instructed: Pauperes evangelizantur.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Notes for Lenten Instructions, March 1813, EO XV<\/em><\/h3>\n<h3>\nOver 40 years later, when he saw the misery of the poor in London: <em><strong>\u201cPoor people, they need food for the body. How much more do they need food for the soul.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wherever we work, our mission is especially to those people whose condition cries out for salvation and for the hope which only Jesus Christ can fully bring. These are the poor with their many faces; we give them our preference. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=6027\">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-6027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6027","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=6027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6027\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}