{"id":6117,"date":"2025-08-22T02:00:25","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T00:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=6117"},"modified":"2025-08-21T23:00:33","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T21:00:33","slug":"our-constitutions-and-rules-a-god-given-path-of-hope-and-communion-for-the-entire-oblate-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=6117","title":{"rendered":"OUR CONSTITUTIONS AND RULES: A GOD-GIVEN PATH OF HOPE AND COMMUNION FOR THE ENTIRE OBLATE FAMILY"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sometimes there is the temptation to regard the Oblate CCRR as an unimportant dull book of legal prescriptions. How wrong we are if we fall into this trap. The Oblate delegates at the Inter-Chapter affirmed this on the fourth day of their gathering: \u201cIt was emphasized that they are not only a set of legal norms, but a living source of inspiration that propels us in mission.\u201d<\/em><\/h3>\n

When Eugene and the founding community wrote the Rule in 1818, they attempted to put into words what the Holy Spirit had guided them to live. Through their lived experience they continued to revise what they had written and presented this text to the Pope and Cardinals for their approbation. What happened on February 17, 1826, was that the Church recognized that this Rule was inspired by God and that the Missionary Oblate Family had come into existence as part of God\u2019s plan<\/h3>\n

Eugene now considered the Rule no longer as the work of a human author, but as the work of God who had made this work his own by inspiring the Pope to give them their character of their divine authority. Addressing the Oblates after the event Eugene referred to his role:<\/h3>\n

\u00a0\u201cHe assured us, that for him, he saw nothing of the man, and that he was so persuaded that they had been inspired by Heaven, that it was impossible for him to recognise himself except as the instrument of Divine Providence.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

PIELORZ, J., Les Chapitres g\u00e9n\u00e9raux<\/em> I, p. 57-58.<\/h3>\n

May the conclusion of the inter-Chapter be that of each of us as we reflect on our Book of Life:<\/h3>\n

“The morning renewed our commitment to the charism and reminded us again that the Constitutions and Rules continue to be a path of hope and communion for the entire Oblate family.”<\/em><\/h3>\n

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