{"id":6056,"date":"2025-07-07T01:00:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-06T23:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=6056"},"modified":"2025-07-06T16:27:20","modified_gmt":"2025-07-06T14:27:20","slug":"our-constitutions-and-rules-as-an-awe-inspiring-means-of-salvation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=6056","title":{"rendered":"OUR CONSTITUTIONS AND RULES AS AN AWE-INSPIRING MEANS OF SALVATION."},"content":{"rendered":"

After many weeks of traveling for charism animation activities, and a trans-Atlantic move of from San Antonio to Rome (including the Kusenberger Chair of Oblate Studies), St Eugene is ready to speak to us again.<\/h3>\n

In the chapel of the General House in Rome we are privileged to have the Statue of the Immaculate Conception, lovingly referred to as the \u201cOblate Madonna.\u201d It was while praying in front of this statue that Eugene experienced a mystical realization. He received the assurance that this tiny religious congregation was blessed by God and that, despite all the tribulations it was experiencing, it contained the seed of a great tree that would flourish.\u00a0 Looking at the nascent Oblate Congregation he exclaimed:<\/h3>\n

I found it worthy,<\/strong><\/em>
\neverything pleased me about it,<\/strong><\/em>
\nI appreciated its rules, its statutes;<\/strong><\/em>
\nits ministry seemed awe-inspiring to me, as it is indeed.<\/strong><\/em>
\nAs I looked at the Society I found in it a sure, even infallible, means of salvation.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

Letter to Henri Tempier, 15 August 1822, EO VI n 86<\/em><\/h3>\n

In view of the 200th anniversary of our official recognition by the Church and the approval of our Oblate Rule, I have been reflecting on the articles of the Constitutions and Rules seen through the eyes of Saint Eugene. Starting at https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5991<\/a>, we have looked at the first five Constitutions already and, because of their importance in understanding our charism,\u00a0I invite you to relook at them and, with Eugene, to find in them an awe-inspiring means of salvation.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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