{"id":6304,"date":"2026-03-19T01:00:23","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T00:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=6304"},"modified":"2026-03-14T18:29:42","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T17:29:42","slug":"papal-approbation-recognizing-the-need-to-give-everything-in-oblation-for-the-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=6304","title":{"rendered":"PAPAL APPROBATION: RECOGNIZING THE NEED TO GIVE EVERYTHING IN OBLATION FOR THE MISSION"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; padding-left: 80px; text-align: center;\"><em><strong>POPE LEO XII<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; padding-left: 80px; text-align: center;\"><em><strong>FOR FUTURE REMEMBRANCE OF THE MATTER\u2026<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; padding-left: 80px;\"><em><strong>\u2026 It is now eleven years since Our Predecessor, Pius VII, of happy memory, shortly after he had by God\u2019s protection guided back to port the storm tossed vessel of the Church safe and sound, openly stated that, due to the disorders of Church and State in France, preachers of the Gospel were needed for the work of recalling to the right path of salvation the sheep that had gone astray. And it was but a short time afterwards that a small band of priests was formed in the diocese of Aix, in Provence, in southern France, to undertake this sacred ministry&#8230;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; padding-left: 80px;\"><em><strong>\u2026Given 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><strong>Pope Leo XII<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: right;\"><em>Apostolic Letter of Approbation, 21 March 1826, Missions O.M.I., n\u00b0 280 (1952), pp. 568ff.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Eugene\u2019s response to the storms the Church was facing, was his founding vision for us:<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; padding-left: 80px;\"><em><strong>The sight of these evils has so touched the hearts of certain priests, zealous for the glory of God, men with an ardent love for the Church, that they are willing to give their lives, if need be, for the salvation of souls.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: right;\"><em>Preface of the CCRR<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6270\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/a-200-logo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2400\" height=\"730\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/a-200-logo.jpg 2400w, https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/a-200-logo-300x91.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/a-200-logo-1024x311.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/a-200-logo-768x234.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/a-200-logo-1536x467.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/a-200-logo-2048x623.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2400px) 100vw, 2400px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>POPE LEO XII FOR FUTURE REMEMBRANCE OF THE MATTER\u2026 \u2026 It is now eleven years since Our Predecessor, Pius VII, of happy memory, shortly after he had by God\u2019s protection guided back to port the storm tossed vessel of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=6304\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6304","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=6304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}