{"id":6385,"date":"2026-06-10T01:00:46","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T23:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=6385"},"modified":"2026-06-09T21:57:40","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T19:57:40","slug":"beatitudes-to-continually-renew-ourselves-in-the-spirit-of-our-vocation-c11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=6385","title":{"rendered":"BEATITUDES: TO CONTINUALLY RENEW OURSELVES IN THE SPIRIT OF OUR VOCATION (C11)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"font-weight: 400; padding-left: 80px;\"><strong><em>Growing in faith, hope and love, we commit ourselves to be a leaven of the Beatitudes at the heart of the world.<\/em> <\/strong><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"font-weight: 400; padding-left: 80px; text-align: right;\">(Constitution 11)<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cDo this and you will live\u201d are the words of Jesus. \u201cDo this and you will live\u201d are the words with which our Constitutions and Rules are entrusted to us.<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the Gospel, Jesus teaches us the beatitudes as an evangelical itinerary for our lives and a source of happiness for each of us.<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For Eugene, they were contained and expressed in the Rule.<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"font-weight: 400; padding-left: 80px;\"><strong><em>My dear sons \u2026 take in hand, once and for all, the Rule that the Church has given us and be imbued with its spirit. I ask you: to what have the members of our Institute devoted themselves, what have they sworn to be for their entire life? Listen: \u201cThey must wholly renounce themselves, and strive solely for the glory of God, the good of the Church and the growth and salvation of souls. They must continually renew themselves in the spirit of their vocation<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: right;\"><em>Eugene\u2019s Circular Letter to all Oblates, 2 February 1857, EO XII p. 209 f<\/em><\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-6373\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Constitution-11--300x228.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"470\" height=\"358\" 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: 470px) 100vw, 470px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Growing in faith, hope and love, we commit ourselves to be a leaven of the Beatitudes at the heart of the world. (Constitution 11) \u201cDo this and you will live\u201d are the words of Jesus. \u201cDo this and you will &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=6385\">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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6385","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=6385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}