{"id":6126,"date":"2025-08-28T06:08:59","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T04:08:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=6126"},"modified":"2025-08-28T06:09:30","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T04:09:30","slug":"a-listening-heart-to-come-to-a-deeper-knowledge-of-the-saviour-whom-we-love-and-wish-to-reveal-to-the-world-c7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=6126","title":{"rendered":"A LISTENING HEART TO COME TO A DEEPER KNOWLEDGE OF THE SAVIOUR WHOM WE LOVE AND WISH TO REVEAL TO THE WORLD \u00a0(C7)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><em><strong>Our mission puts us on constant call to respond to the most urgent needs of the Church through various forms of witness and ministry, but especially through proclaiming the Word of God\u2026<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Constitution 7<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>In his Diocesan Pastoral Letter on the missions, Bishop Eugene wrote in 1844:<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><em><strong>Handed on to his Apostles by Jesus, this Word has lost none of its power in the course of the ages. We have experienced the fact that because it issued from the mouth of him who is himself eternal life, it is always spirit and life.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3>So convinced was Eugene of the importance of Scripture in his life that he spent time every single day studying the scriptures. For him, the <em>Lectio Divina<\/em> was the opportunity to listen to the Word of God as a personal message. He included this practice in his daily program. Scripture scholars who have studied the writings of Saint Eugene point out how steeped he was in Scripture. He often quoted directly in his letters and in his diary, and, very often, he paraphrased the texts as part of his communication.<\/h3>\n<h3>In the first Rule he wrote that \u201ce<strong>very member of the Institute is charged to study Sacred Scripture daily<\/strong>.\u201d Today in our Rule, we read:<\/h3>\n<h3><em>The Word of God nourishes our spiritual life and apostolate. We will not only study it diligently but also develop a listening heart, so that we may come to a deeper knowledge of the Saviour whom we love and wish to reveal to the world. This immersion in God&#8217;s Word will enable us to understand better the events of history in the light of faith\u00a0<\/em>(Constitution 33)<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our mission puts us on constant call to respond to the most urgent needs of the Church through various forms of witness and ministry, but especially through proclaiming the Word of God\u2026 Constitution 7 In his Diocesan Pastoral Letter on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=6126\">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-6126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6126","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=6126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}