{"id":6302,"date":"2026-03-18T01:00:48","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T00:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=6302"},"modified":"2026-03-14T18:12:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T17:12:16","slug":"papal-approbation-the-church-has-recognized-the-need-for-the-oblates-in-her-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=6302","title":{"rendered":"PAPAL APPROBATION: THE CHURCH HAS RECOGNIZED THE NEED FOR THE OBLATES IN HER MISSION"},"content":{"rendered":"

POPE LEO XII<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

FOR FUTURE REMEMBRANCE OF THE MATTER<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

If there ever was a time when this Apostolic See endeavored to encourage and support by every means at its command the zeal of those priests, who, burning with the fire of holy love, preach the Gospel throughout the whole world, and labor to implant in the minds of people the precepts and duties of the Christian religion and to instruct the people to be subject to lawful authority, We think of no more fitting occasion to do this than at the present when crimes of every kind, issuing like hideous monsters from the dark recesses of the past, again rear their heads and boldly spread their ravages from day to day, threatening to overthrow all rights, human and divine, and completely to efface, were it possible, every vestige of religion\u2026<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

\u2026 Given at Rome, at St. Peter\u2019s, under the Fisherman\u2019s Ring, on the twenty first day of March, 1826, in the third year of Our Pontificate.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Pope Leo XII<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Apostolic Letter of Approbation, 21 March 1826, Missions O.M.I., n\u00b0 280 (1952), pp. 568ff.<\/em><\/p>\n

This echoes Eugene\u2019s analysis of the situation of French Christians after the Revolution which impelled him to respond by creating the Oblates to reform the situation at close quarters.<\/p>\n

The Church, that glorious inheritance purchased by Christ the Savior at the cost of his own blood, has in our days been cruelly ravaged. The beloved spouse of God\u2019s only begotten Son is torn with anguish as she mourns the shameful defection of the children she herself bore. Christians, but apostates, and utterly mindless of God\u2019s blessings, they provoke divine justice by their crimes\u2026.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Faced with such a deplorable situation, the Church earnestly appeals to the ministers whom she herself enrolled in the cause of her divine Spouse, to do all in their power, by word and example, to rekindle the flame of faith that has all but died in the hearts of so many of her children.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Preface of the CCRR<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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