{"id":6108,"date":"2025-08-19T01:00:52","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T23:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=6108"},"modified":"2025-08-17T21:43:19","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T19:43:19","slug":"we-respond-through-various-forms-of-witness-and-ministry-c7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=6108","title":{"rendered":"WE RESPOND THROUGH VARIOUS FORMS OF WITNESS AND MINISTRY (C7)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our mission puts us on constant call to respond to the most urgent needs of the Church through various forms of witness and ministry.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

(Constitution 7)<\/h3>\n

This phrase certainly mirrors the spirit of Eugene and the first Missionaries! In their parish missions they used every possible form of ceremony, symbolic gestures and ministry to communicate their message and respond to the needs of the people. As Bishop of Marseilles, Eugene had the same approach in responding to the most urgent needs of the members of the local church and beyond. Apart from pastoral letters, sermons and personal contacts, he responded by enlisting as many people as possible in the charitable responses of the diocese. He wrote:<\/h3>\n

Admire how these charities are multiplying. How many new institutions have an objective that was previously unknown!<\/strong><\/em>
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\nChildhood, old age, the sick, the poor, the worker bent from morning to night under the weight of the workday and the heat, the innocent in peril, the disgusting and remorse-ridden vice, the young prisoner already initiated into the habits that make criminals, the serious offender hardened in crime, the rich man himself often so helpless before God on his deathbed:<\/strong><\/em>
\ncharity embraces everything; and when there are new needs, it invents new responses when necessary:
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spiritual help, bodily help, bread for the soul, bread for the body; instructions for ignorance; advice, guidance, support for weakness; a sanctuary for virtue or for penance; pious sentiments, sweet consolations, supernatural strength for the dying;<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

all types of good works are lavished in the name of Jesus Christ.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

Pastoral letter of Bishop de Mazenod to the Diocese of Marseilles for Lent 1847<\/em><\/h3>\n

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