{"id":6034,"date":"2025-04-03T01:08:12","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T23:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=6034"},"modified":"2025-04-03T01:08:38","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T23:08:38","slug":"gods-mission-has-our-oblate-family-constitution-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=6034","title":{"rendered":"GOD\u2019S MISSION HAS OUR OBLATE FAMILY (Constitution 5)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><strong>We are a missionary Congregation<\/strong><\/em> (Constitution 5)<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cAs the Father has sent me, I am sending you&#8221; (John 20:21), said Jesus as he entrusted his disciples to God\u2019s mission. God\u2019s mission has a Church, and God\u2019s mission has our Oblate Family. It is not that we own our mission, but that God has called us to be a part of God\u2019s mission of salvation.<\/h3>\n<h3>Jesus invites us to participate in his mission \u2013 his mission has the Oblate Family as part of it. In this sense we understand better Eugene\u2019s description of us as \u201ccooperators of the Savior\u201d and \u201cco-redeemers of the human race.\u201d We are not doers of our mission, but we are instruments that God uses to join Jesus in his mission.<br \/>\nThis Constitution invites us to rethink our missionary motivation: no matter how important or how insignificant we may think our actions to be, they make a difference because God is using us at home, at work, in every situation as religious, ordained, married or single missionaries.<\/h3>\n<h3>Mother Teresa\u2019s words capture the sense of our vocation as cooperators: \u201cI am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world.\u201d<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are a missionary Congregation (Constitution 5) \u201cAs the Father has sent me, I am sending you&#8221; (John 20:21), said Jesus as he entrusted his disciples to God\u2019s mission. God\u2019s mission has a Church, and God\u2019s mission has our Oblate &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=6034\">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-6034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6034","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=6034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6034\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}