{"id":6162,"date":"2025-10-17T01:00:49","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T23:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=6162"},"modified":"2025-10-16T18:22:37","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T16:22:37","slug":"never-intimidated-by-the-challenge-of-presenting-the-gospel-constitution-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=6162","title":{"rendered":"NEVER INTIMIDATED BY THE CHALLENGE OF PRESENTING THE GOSPEL (Constitution 8)"},"content":{"rendered":"

We will always be close to the people with whom we work, taking into account their values and aspirations. To seek out new ways for the Word of God to reach their hearts often calls for daring; to present Gospel demands in all clarity should never intimidate us.<\/strong><\/em> (Constitution 8)<\/h3>\n

Essentially founded with the focus of rebuilding the ravaged French Church through the preaching of parochial missions 200 years ago, we find ourselves responding to very different missionary challenges today. The common thread has always been a daring to seek out new ways for the Word to reach people. The scope of mission was to dare to respond to the needs of the youth, the prisoners, domestic workers, farm laborers of Provence, then they dared to move to shrines as permanent mission centers, and then to dare to cross oceans to reach out to abandoned people in the forests of Canada, the slums of England, the plantations\u00a0 of Ceylon, the desert of Algeria, the valleys of Natal and mountains of Lesotho \u2013 always reaching out to people of different languages and cultures and areas of abandonment. Always responding with daring to every missionary challenge.<\/h3>\n

In the OMI Lacombe newsletter we read about Pope Pius XI\u2019s recognition of Oblate daring in presenting the Gospel:<\/h3>\n

In 1938 Fr. Prime Girard, OMI was visiting Europe for his vacation. During his stay in Rome he attended the private audience with Holy Father Pius XI. \u201cCur\u00e9 of the North Pole\u201d reported to the Pope about the Arctic missions, about Inuit and about the harsh reality of the North. Pius XI, who was attentive from the very beginning to the Arctic missions, listened to the stories of Fr. Girard with a great interest. It is then that he called the Oblates the specialists of the most difficult missions. This calling is attributed to the Oblates all over the world till today, but very few remember that it was Fr. Prime Girard, OMI and the pioneers of the Arctic missions who, in heroic way, have deserved this call. (http:\/\/www.omilacombe.ca\/2016\/03\/14\/specialists-of-the-most-difficult-missions<\/a>)<\/em><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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