{"id":6368,"date":"2026-05-20T01:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T23:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=6368"},"modified":"2026-05-19T21:18:38","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T19:18:38","slug":"the-desire-i-have-always-had-to-make-her-known-and-loved-c10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=6368","title":{"rendered":"THE DESIRE I HAVE ALWAYS HAD TO MAKE HER KNOWN AND LOVED (C10)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"font-weight: 400; padding-left: 80px;\"><em><strong>Wherever our ministry takes us, we will strive to instil genuine devotion to the Immaculate Virgin who prefigures God\u2019s final victory over all evil. \u00a0<\/strong><\/em>(Constitution 10)<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On his 72<sup>nd<\/sup> birthday, after a lifetime of being Mary\u2019s son, he wrote in his will:<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"font-weight: 400; padding-left: 80px;\"><strong><em>To this end, I invoke the intercession of the Most Holy and Immaculate Virgin Mary, Mother of God, daring to remind her in all humility, but with consolation, of the filial devotion of my whole life, and of the desire I have always had to make her known and loved, and to spread her devotion everywhere through the ministry of those whom the Church has given to me as children, who have had the same desire as myself\u2026<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: right;\"><em>Eugene de Mazenod\u2019s will, 1 August 1854, EO XV n. 191<\/em><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Those whom the \u201cChurch has given to Eugene as children\u201d \u2013 the Oblate Charismatic Family\u00a0 today \u2013 continue to make Mary known and loved as the first Cooperator of the Savior.<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6350\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/C10-text-Mary.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"854\" height=\"690\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/C10-text-Mary.png 854w, https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/C10-text-Mary-300x242.png 300w, https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/C10-text-Mary-768x621.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 854px) 100vw, 854px\" \/><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wherever our ministry takes us, we will strive to instil genuine devotion to the Immaculate Virgin who prefigures God\u2019s final victory over all evil. \u00a0(Constitution 10) On his 72nd birthday, after a lifetime of being Mary\u2019s son, he wrote in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=6368\">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-6368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6368","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=6368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}