{"id":6096,"date":"2025-08-06T01:00:28","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T23:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=6096"},"modified":"2025-08-05T22:22:28","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T20:22:28","slug":"spare-no-effort-nil-linquendum-est-inausum-c7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=6096","title":{"rendered":"SPARE NO EFFORT: NIL LINQUENDUM EST INAUSUM (C7)"},"content":{"rendered":"

We will spare no effort to awaken or to reawaken the faith in the people to whom we are sent, and we will help them to discover \u201cwho Christ is\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

Constitution 7<\/em><\/h3>\n

\u201cSpare no effort!\u201d In 1818 Eugene wrote these words in the first version of what has come to be known as our \u201cPreface.\u201d For over 200 years these words have been engraved in the hearts and imaginations of our Oblate missionaries: \u201cspare no effort!\u201d These words sum up Eugene\u2019s entire life and the history of his Missionary Family present today in 65 countries.<\/h3>\n

The Church has shown its recognition through the words of the Popes at our General Chapters. Pope John Paul II, for example:<\/h3>\n

With you all, I give thanks to the Lord for the work accomplished by the Oblates. Your presence on every continent, and particularly in distant lands, brings you into contact with men and women of different cultures and traditions; this is the sign of the Church\u2019s universality and of her concern for all peoples.<\/em><\/h3>\n

[\u2026] You are also concerned with the new areas of mission, especially the communications media and confident dialogue with the people of today, in order to establish an ever more fraternal society and an era of justice and peace. You are making courageous efforts to meet new, urgent pastoral, apostolic and missionary needs, and to undertake the necessary inculturation, a patient process which, while requiring you to listen to people, \u201cmust in no way compromise the distinctiveness and integrity of the Christian faith\u201d (Redemptoris missio, n. 52). The Church appreciates your willingness and concern to answer the Lord\u2019s call wherever you are sent and to put yourselves at the service of the local Churches<\/em> [\u2026]To the XXXIII General Chapter, September 24, 1998<\/h3>\n

Eugene charges us today: spare no effort to make him known in whatever you do, in your speech and in your actions of love for others<\/h3>\n

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