{"id":6376,"date":"2026-05-29T01:00:32","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T23:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=6376"},"modified":"2026-05-27T20:38:36","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T18:38:36","slug":"the-kingdom-is-not-will-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=6376","title":{"rendered":"THE KINGDOM \u201cIS\u201d NOT &#8211; \u201cWILL BE.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"font-weight: 400; padding-left: 80px;\"><em><strong>Our mission is to proclaim the Kingdom of God and to seek it before all else (cf. Mt 6: 33).<\/strong> (Constitution 11)<\/em><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To seek and accept the Kingdom of God in one\u2019s life requires an emptying of self in a spirit of poverty. The Savior did this to make it possible for us<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"font-weight: 400; padding-left: 80px;\"><strong><em>Jesus began his first sermon on the Mount of Beatitudes with poverty: \u201cBlessed are the poor in spirit for the kingdom of heaven is theirs.\u201d He said \u201cis\u201d not \u201cwill be\u201d to show that it already belongs to them, having paid the price by the abandonment of everything, like the one who buying some merchandise pays for it while it remains with the seller.<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: right;\"><em>Eugene\u2019s \u201cNotes on evangelical poverty,\u201d 1818-1821, EO XV, n 150.<\/em><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6373\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Constitution-11--300x228.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"228\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Constitution-11--300x228.png 300w, https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Constitution-11--768x585.png 768w, https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Constitution-11-.png 922w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our mission is to proclaim the Kingdom of God and to seek it before all else (cf. Mt 6: 33). (Constitution 11) To seek and accept the Kingdom of God in one\u2019s life requires an emptying of self in a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=6376\">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-6376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6376","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=6376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}