{"id":633,"date":"2011-04-06T05:00:39","date_gmt":"2011-04-06T03:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=633"},"modified":"2011-04-06T11:23:40","modified_gmt":"2011-04-06T09:23:40","slug":"oblation-to-ensure-a-loving-authenticity-of-life-and-ministry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=633","title":{"rendered":"OBLATION: TO ENSURE A LOVING AUTHENTICITY OF LIFE AND MINISTRY"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<h5><strong>Hence I considered choosing the evangelical counsels, to which they had been so faithful, as indispensable, lest our words be no more than what I have often noticed about the words of those who proclaim the same truths, namely sounding brass and tinkling cymbals. My consistent thought has\u00a0always been that our little family should consecrate itself to God and to the service of the Church through the vows of religion<\/strong>.<\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Rambert, I p. 187<\/em><\/p>\n<p>To live in the state of union with Jesus, like his apostles, and to love like them it was necessary to commit themselves to the evangelical counsels, or Gospel models. Traditionally, for the active apostolic groups of religious life, these Gospel ideals were summed up as chastity, poverty and obedience. In other words, to follow Jesus in his way of living a non-exclusive love for all, a simple lifestyle detached from riches and a life lived in obedient openness to the will of God \u2013 all for the sake of love of God and neighbour.<\/p>\n<p>A commitment to this way of living would ensure an authenticity in their lifestyle and in the quality and contents of their preaching. A public profession of the vows would ensure that their commitment would not be a mere passing fancy that would wear away with time, but a guiding ideal for life. In this way they would avoid the pitfalls that Paul warned of in I Corinthians 13:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h5>If I speak in the tongues of mortals and of angels, but do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give away all my possessions, and if I hand over my body so that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.<\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">I Corinthians 13: 1-3<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hence I considered choosing the evangelical counsels, to which they had been so faithful, as indispensable, lest our words be no more than what I have often noticed about the words of those who proclaim the same truths, namely sounding &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=633\">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":[54],"tags":[11,33,87],"class_list":["post-633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diary","tag-gods-love","tag-religious-life","tag-vows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633","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=633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}