{"id":6065,"date":"2025-07-16T00:30:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T22:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=6065"},"modified":"2025-08-03T21:02:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T19:02:14","slug":"in-communion-with-the-pastors-whom-the-lord-has-given-to-his-people-as-long-as-the-spirit-of-our-oblate-vocation-is-observed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=6065","title":{"rendered":"IN COMMUNION WITH THE PASTORS WHOM THE LORD HAS GIVEN TO HIS PEOPLE, AS LONG AS THE SPIRIT OF OUR OBLATE VOCATION IS OBSERVED (C6)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><em><strong>Our love for the Church inspires us to fulfil our mission in communion with the pastors whom the Lord has given to his people.<\/strong><\/em> (Constitution 6)<\/h3>\n<h3>\nWriting to Oblate Fr. Bellanger in Algeria, Eugene stressed:<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><em><strong>I am delighted that you accompanied Bishop Pavy to Philippeville; by seeing you at close quarters he will understand still more readily that our missionaries are priests who are most devoted to the bishops and that their whole ambition lies in taking on their own shoulders some of the burden that lies so heavily on those of the Prelates\u2026 I am most anxious that the Bishop be fully aware of this since it is a basic principle of the Congregation\u2026 All I ask is that the bishops facilitate the means of maintaining among our members who are consecrated to their service, the spirit of their holy vocation, regularity and religious discipline.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><em>Letter to Fr. Jean Baptiste Bellanger at Blida, Algeria, 10 November 1849, EO IV (Africa) n.10.<\/em><\/h3>\n<h3>\nOblates as \u201cmen of the Bishops\u201d need to ensure that\u201d the spirit of their holy vocation, regularity and religious discipline\u201d be acknowledged and respected. The bishop in Algeria did not respect this, and so Eugene was forced to remove the Oblates from Algeria a year later.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our love for the Church inspires us to fulfil our mission in communion with the pastors whom the Lord has given to his people. (Constitution 6) Writing to Oblate Fr. Bellanger in Algeria, Eugene stressed: I am delighted that you &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=6065\">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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6065","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=6065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6065\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}