{"id":6194,"date":"2025-11-11T01:00:45","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T00:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=6194"},"modified":"2025-11-09T20:19:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T19:19:14","slug":"walking-the-line-between-prophetic-vision-and-spiritual-sustenance-constitution-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=6194","title":{"rendered":"WALKING THE LINE BETWEEN PROPHETIC VISION AND SPIRITUAL SUSTENANCE (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. We will hear and make heard the clamour of the voiceless, which is a cry to God who brings down the mighty from their thrones and exalts the lowly (cf. Lk 1: 52). This prophetic mission is carried out in communion with the Church, in conformity with the directives of the hierarchy and in dependence on our Superiors<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0 (Constitution 9)<\/h3>\n

The religious historian, Timothy B. Tyson\u2019s words help us to live Constitution 9:<\/h3>\n

\u201cEvery minister worthy of the name has to walk the line between prophetic vision and spiritual sustenance, between telling people the comforting things they want to hear and challenging them with the difficult things they need to hear. In Oxford, my father began to feel as though all the members wanted him to do was to marry them and bury them and stay away from their souls.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/h3>\n

Eugene looked at the Cross and saw himself as he really was: confused and lost and lacking direction. Conversion meant that he had finally found his focus. It was seeing himself through the eyes of the Crucified Savior that gave him a focus. They led him to begin to look at the world through those same eyes and understand the purpose of his life as being a \u201cco-operator of Christ the Savior.\u201d<\/h3>\n

Through the eyes of the crucified Christ he became aware of a crowd of poor lost people milling at the foot of the Cross, focused on themselves and their misery .\u00a0Just like Eugene, once we enter into this personal process as missionary disciples, then we find ourselves becoming even more aware of those around us who are most in need of the same change of vision.<\/h3>\n

Here is the Oblate message and mission: journey with the poor and abandoned, in their humanity, to discover the liberating presence of Jesus Christ and the new world born in his resurrection in their human struggles and joys, and then to accompany them in their growth as Christians and saints in the process.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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