{"id":6179,"date":"2025-10-30T01:00:50","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T00:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=6179"},"modified":"2025-10-29T21:11:49","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T20:11:49","slug":"the-call-to-prophetic-dynamism-constitution-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=6179","title":{"rendered":"THE CALL TO PROPHETIC DYNAMISM (Constitution 9)"},"content":{"rendered":"

We are members of the prophetic Church. While recognizing our own need for conversion, we bear witness to God\u2019s holiness and justice. We announce the liberating presence of Jesus Christ and the new world born in his resurrection.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

(Constitution 9)<\/h3>\n

The heart of our spirituality, the focus of our charism and the source of our mission is expressed in our Rule as: \u201cThrough the eyes of our crucified Saviour we see the world which he redeemed with his blood, desiring that those in whom he continues to suffer will know also the power of his resurrection\u201d(C 4).<\/h3>\n

Constitution 9 reflects our founding vision and impels us to do exactly this as Fr. Fernand Jett\u00e9, our Superior General from 1974 to 1986, wrote:<\/h3>\n

\u2026 everyone recognizes that it is necessary for a missionary Congregation dedicated to evangelizing the poor to open itself to this new dimension and to commit itself, clearly and according to its proper vocation, to the struggle for justice and the defense of human rights. That is the sense of the present article, an important article that is not without its el\u00e1n (ed. animating force).<\/em><\/h3>\n

In fact, the prophetism that it asks for, even though it may bear in a special way on social justice, is much more vast than the sole defense of human rights. <\/em><\/h3>\n

It expresses a reality that lies at the very heart of the religious life, the latter\u2019s basic prophetism, namely, contesting the world, that is to say, the world filled with ambiguity and marked by sin in which we live, a world to be contested with God\u2019s justice and holiness. <\/em><\/h3>\n

If lived the way it ought to be, that is to say, radically, the religious life is, by its very existence and the practice of the vows, both an absolute contestation, often silent, of everything that is worldly in the world and in the Church, as well as the proclamation of a new world born of Christ\u2019s resurrection.<\/em><\/h3>\n

(The Apostolic Man, p. 99)<\/h3>\n

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