{"id":6191,"date":"2025-11-06T01:00:42","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T00:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=6191"},"modified":"2025-11-05T18:13:44","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T17:13:44","slug":"we-offer-hope-to-a-broken-world-constitution-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=6191","title":{"rendered":"WE OFFER HOPE TO A BROKEN WORLD\u00a0 (Constitution 9)"},"content":{"rendered":"

We are members of the prophetic Church. While recognizing our own need for conversion, we bear witness to God’s holiness and justice. We announce the liberating presence of Jesus Christ and the new world born in his resurrection<\/strong><\/em>. (Constitution 9)<\/h3>\n

Taking up the invitation of the theme of the 37th<\/sup> General Chapter, we recognize our missionary vocation of being called to offer hope to a broken world that experiences war, poverty, and the degradation of creation. Hope in Jesus Christ calls us to \u201coffer explicit witness to the saving love of the Lord, who despite our imperfections offers us his closeness, his word and his strength, and gives meaning to our lives\u201d (EG 121).<\/em><\/h3>\n

(Acts of 2022 General Chapter n. 10)<\/h3>\n

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The brokenness of the world touches every aspect of our lives and we feel so helpless in doing anything about it. St Eugene inspires us to have confidence in God as his cooperators:<\/h3>\n

We need to have some courage and confidence in God who shows us the road and will not abandon us when we act in his name and for his glory. Everywhere we have established ourselves we have made a feeble start. <\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n

Letter of Eugene to Fr \u00a0Guigues in Canada, 5 December 1844, EO I n 50<\/em><\/h3>\n

Here he was writing to the first missionaries in Canada who were few and feeble \u2013 yet their persevering confidence in God was to bear astounding missionary fruit. His words continue to speak to us today. Healing a broken world begins with our own personal and community world.<\/h3>\n

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