{"id":6370,"date":"2026-05-22T01:00:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T23:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=6370"},"modified":"2026-05-19T21:43:01","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T19:43:01","slug":"let-us-ever-keep-these-rules-before-our-eyes-still-more-in-our-hearts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=6370","title":{"rendered":"LET US EVER KEEP THESE RULES BEFORE OUR EYES, STILL MORE IN OUR HEARTS"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We have reached the end of our journey with St Eugene through the first 10 Constitutions of what the members of our Oblate Charismatic Family regard as our Book of Life. These articles are a summary of the charism that inspires each of us to live according to our various states of life. St Eugene\u2019s advice to us:<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"font-weight: 400; padding-left: 80px;\"><strong><em>So let us hold this precious Rule in high esteem, have it always before our eyes, and even more in the heart, let us continually nourish our souls with the principles it contains, let us do nothing, say nothing, think nothing that is not in conformity with its spirit. It is only in this way that we shall be what God wants us to be and make ourselves worthy of our sublime vocation.<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"font-weight: 400; padding-left: 80px; text-align: right;\"><em>Annual Retreat notes, October 1831, EO 15, n.163.<\/em><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Constitutions 1-10 describe our vision and ideals \u2013 and as we now begin to explore Constitution 11 onwards we will see how we can put these ideals into practice.<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Mazenodian charism is contained in the Constitutions and Rules, in the Directories of the lay associates and the handbooks of various groups of our Oblate Family: we are invited to reflect on how they may be guides for us to live the Gospel<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have reached the end of our journey with St Eugene through the first 10 Constitutions of what the members of our Oblate Charismatic Family regard as our Book of Life. These articles are a summary of the charism that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=6370\">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-6370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6370","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=6370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}