{"id":6095,"date":"2025-08-05T01:00:01","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T23:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=6095"},"modified":"2025-08-04T22:38:57","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T20:38:57","slug":"the-oblate-brothers-as-evangelizers-witness-and-sharing-of-talents-c7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=6095","title":{"rendered":"THE OBLATE BROTHERS AS EVANGELIZERS: WITNESS AND SHARING OF TALENTS (C7)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><em><strong>Oblate Brothers share in the common priesthood of Christ. They are called to cooperate in their own way in reconciling all things in him (cf. Col 1: 20). Through their religious consecration, they offer a particular witness to a life inspired by the Gospel.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><em><strong>Brothers participate in the missionary work of building up the Church everywhere, especially in those areas where the Word is first being proclaimed. Missioned by the Church, their technical, professional or pastoral service, as well as the witness of their life, constitute their ministry of evangelization.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px; text-align: right;\">Rule 7 c<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Brothers brought their many skills to the Oblate mission, especially in teaching: \u201cin 1850-1853, brothers were teaching in Canada and in England. In the period between 1841 and 1861, at least twenty-five brothers taught catechism in France, at Vico and in Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n<p>The brothers were so much a part of the Congregation after 1841 that Bishop de Mazenod distributed as many as possible in the houses in France and made them a part of every missionary contingent.\u00a0Moreover, more and more brothers joined the Congregation after the acceptance of foreign missions. At the time of the death of the Founder, of the four hundred and fourteen Oblates, there were eighty-seven brothers, giving a total of twenty percent.<\/p>\n<p>In the appendix of the 1853 Rule on foreign missions, Bishop de Mazenod \u2026 opened up a new field of apostolate for them by asking that in all our missions the priest should never be alone, that he be accompanied by at least one brother. He added that the Oblates should turn their attention to teaching the youth\u201d\u00a0(S. Rebordinos, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omiworld.org\/lemma\/brothers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.omiworld.org\/lemma\/brothers\/<\/a> )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oblate Brothers share in the common priesthood of Christ. They are called to cooperate in their own way in reconciling all things in him (cf. Col 1: 20). Through their religious consecration, they offer a particular witness to a life &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=6095\">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-6095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6095","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=6095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6095\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}