{"id":6146,"date":"2025-09-25T00:30:20","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T22:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=6146"},"modified":"2025-09-24T19:21:25","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T17:21:25","slug":"gods-power-enables-the-missionary-to-be-close-to-the-people-c8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=6146","title":{"rendered":"GOD\u2019S POWER ENABLES THE MISSIONARY TO BE CLOSE TO THE PEOPLE (C8) \u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><em><strong>We will always be close to the people with whom we work, taking into account their values and aspirations&#8230;<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong>Awareness of our own shortcomings humbles us, yet God&#8217;s power makes us confident as we strive to bring all people \u2013 especially the poor \u2013 to full consciousness of their dignity as human beings and as sons and daughters of God.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Constitution 8<\/em><\/h3>\n<h3>\u00a0Through personal contact the people were invited to an encounter with the Savior, but the missionaries had to make sure that they themselves had prayed to be His cooperators and instruments to the people.<br \/>\nIn that spirit of evangelical closeness, they visited the people of the smaller villages in their homes on the first days of the missions to establish contact with them and to ascertain whether there were any pastoral problems that needed to be dealt with.<br \/>\nEugene established this principle in the first Rule of the Missionaries:<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 80px;\">\n<em><strong>They will visit without distinction all the town\u2019s inhabitants. The missionaries will do this with great modesty, much gentleness, affability, and consideration. <\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong>Before beginning the visit, the missionaries will go before the Blessed Sacrament to commend to our Lord Jesus Christ this important action that can greatly influence the mission\u2019s success.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 80px; text-align: right;\"><em>1818 Rule Part 1, Chapter 2, \u00a72<\/em><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We will always be close to the people with whom we work, taking into account their values and aspirations&#8230; Awareness of our own shortcomings humbles us, yet God&#8217;s power makes us confident as we strive to bring all people \u2013 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=6146\">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-6146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6146","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=6146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}