{"id":6039,"date":"2025-04-09T01:00:14","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T23:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=6039"},"modified":"2025-04-07T15:47:57","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T13:47:57","slug":"we-know-that-the-oblates-make-this-their-specialty-it-is-as-glorious-as-it-is-difficult-constitution-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=6039","title":{"rendered":"WE KNOW THAT THE OBLATES MAKE THIS THEIR SPECIALTY: IT IS AS GLORIOUS AS IT IS DIFFICULT. (Constitution 5)"},"content":{"rendered":"

We are a missionary Congregation. Our principal service in the Church is to proclaim Christ and his Kingdom to the most abandoned. We preach the Gospel among people who have not yet received it and help them see their own values in its light. Where the Church is already established, our commitment is to those groups it touches least. <\/em>(Constitution 5)<\/h3>\n

\nFr. Fernand Jett\u00e9 OMI, Superior General 1974-1986, wrote:<\/h3>\n

\u201cI know, for example, in what high esteem we are held by the Sacred Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, an esteem that goes back a long while\u2026 Why? The reason, so it would seem, is the total availability the Institute has shown in responding to the Church’s appeal in favour of the poorest and most difficult missions, those which others either could not or did not dare to accept. Another reason is our perseverance, our faithfulness in staying on in impossible conditions. \u2018We know quite well,\u2019 Pius XI told the Capitulars of 1926, \u2018what the Oblates have accomplished in the Far North of Canada, in Southern Africa and at the Equator. They always go to wherever there is some particular feature of danger, challenge and fatigue, difficult climate, and sacrifice, and they are always there first. We know that the Oblates make this their specialty: it is as glorious as it is difficult\u2019.\u201d<\/h3>\n

(The Mission ad Gentes<\/em>, 1979)<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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