{"id":6063,"date":"2025-07-15T00:30:17","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T22:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=6063"},"modified":"2025-08-03T21:02:29","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T19:02:29","slug":"our-love-for-the-church-inspires-us-to-fulfil-our-mission-in-a-particular-relationship-with-the-bishops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=6063","title":{"rendered":"OUR LOVE FOR THE CHURCH INSPIRES US TO FULFIL OUR MISSION IN A PARTICULAR \u00a0RELATIONSHIP WITH THE BISHOPS (C6)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our love for the Church inspires us to fulfil our mission in communion with the pastors whom the Lord has given to his people; we accept loyally, with an enlightened faith, the guidance and teachings of the successors of Peter and the Apostles.<\/strong> <\/em>(Constitution 6)<\/h3>\n

Writing to the Bishop of Quebec Eugene has one sentence in this regard:<\/h3>\n

They are essentially men of the bishops. It is with this in view that I have founded them and, thanks be to God, they are all imbued with this spirit that belongs to their Institute.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

Letter to the Bishop of Quebec, 10 August 1843, EO I n 22<\/h3>\n

The phrase \u201cthey are men of the bishops\u201d has been misused at times. It does not mean that Oblate missionaries are to be treated by the local bishop as diocesan priests. The second part of Eugene\u2019s statement gives the key to understanding this assertion: \u201cthey are all imbued with this spirit that belongs to their Institute.\u201d There is a specific charism and spirit that they contribute to the local diocese and with which they do their ministry. On several occasions, Eugene withdrew Oblates from a place or refused an invitation to take on a ministry because the specific aspect of being missionary preachers, in an apostolic community, to the \u201cpoor with their many faces\u201d was absent.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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