{"id":6280,"date":"2026-02-23T01:00:55","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T00:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=6280"},"modified":"2026-02-22T21:26:20","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T20:26:20","slug":"the-rules-have-been-judged-holy-and-highly-suited-to-lead-those-who-have-embraced-them-to-their-goal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=6280","title":{"rendered":"THE RULES HAVE BEEN JUDGED HOLY AND HIGHLY SUITED TO LEAD THOSE WHO HAVE EMBRACED THEM TO THEIR GOAL"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cWe praise you, O God: we acknowledge you to be the Lord\u201d\u2026 My dear friend, my dear brothers, on February 17, 1826, yesterday evening, the Sovereign Pontiff Leo XII \u2026specifically approved the Institute, the Rules and Constitutions of the Missionary Oblates of the Most Holy and Immaculate Virgin Mary…<\/span><\/i><\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n

\u00a0<\/span>The grace of the approbation \u2013 of the fact that the Church recognized the divine origins of our charism \u2013 demands an appropriate response from us which Eugene spelt out<\/h3>\n

The conclusion to be drawn from this, my dear friends and good brothers, is: we must work, with renewed ardour and still more total devotedness, to bring to God all the glory that stems from our efforts and, to the needy souls of our neighbours, salvation in all possible ways; we must attach ourselves heart and soul to our Rules and practice more exactly what they prescribe to us.<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

\u00a0<\/span>Today, as 200 years ago, the fact of the approbation calls us to be aware that, in following the Constitutions and Rules and the spirit they express, all members of the Oblate Charismatic Family have a map of how to reach our goals as Christians and missionaries: \u201cIn the name of God, let us be saints!\u201d<\/h3>\n

\u00a0<\/span>To do this well, would mean remaking our novitiate so as to meditate at leisure on all they contain. They are not a triviality, they are no longer simple regulations, merely pious directions; they are Rules approved by the Church after most minute examination. They have been judged holy and highly suited to lead those who have embraced them to their goal.<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

\u00a0<\/span>The Oblate Family was founded because Eugene heard the call of Jesus Christ within the Church through people\u2019s need for salvation. The Constitutions and Rules now belong to the Church because they are our means of being Church, the Body of Christ.<\/h3>\n

They have become the property of the Church that has adopted them. The Pope, by approving them, has become their guarantor.<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n
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Letter to Fr Tempier, 18 February 1826, EO VII n. 226<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cWe praise you, O God: we acknowledge you to be the Lord\u201d\u2026 My dear friend, my dear brothers, on February 17, 1826, yesterday evening, the Sovereign Pontiff Leo XII \u2026specifically approved the Institute, the Rules and Constitutions of the Missionary … Continue reading →<\/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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6280","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=6280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}