Please visit Eugene de Mazenod speaks to us It is said that the “habit does not make the monk” – but what Eugene is getting at in this article of the Rule is that our exterior appearance can be an indication of an inner attitude. The missionary will never be allowed to curl his hair, or to wear buckles on his shoes, or rings on his fingers. Everything on and about him…
Please visit Eugene de Mazenod speaks to us When an ambassador comes to a new country to represent his Head of State, he presents his “credentials” to the president or monarch of the new country where he is. For Eugene the Cross is the “credential” that shows that it is God who is sending the Missionary to be the co-operator of the Savior among the people to whom he is missioning. The Oblate…
Do not forget to visit: Eugene de Mazenod speaks to us. Just a click and you are there! Jesus “took pity on them because they were like sheep without a shepherd, and he set himself to teach them at some length.” Mark 6:34 Imitating the “virtues and examples of Jesus Christ” led Eugene to deal with the last area of mission in the 1818 Rule: the mission of the houses where the…
Do not forget to visit: Eugene de Mazenod speaks to us. Just a click and you are there! The church of the Oblate Mission house in Aix was never a parish. The community was young, dynamic and obviously attracted many people to their services –either in the church or in the various ministries of the Missionaries in the city. Eugene felt a sense of responsibility to these persons, particularly in the case…
Do not forget to visit: Eugene de Mazenod speaks to us. Just a click and you are there! The common theme running through all the descriptions of the ministry of the Missionaries was this infallible rule: We are never to lose sight of one of the principal ends of our Institute, which is to help the most abandoned souls. As Eugene unfolds the ministry of the Missionaries in the 1818 Rule, he…
Posted on March 28, 2012 by frank Santucci, omi Do not forget to visit: Eugene de Mazenod speaks to us. Just a click and you are there! It goes without saying that it is never permitted to receive even the least recompense for preaching, or the administration of the sacraments, or any other ministry. 1818 Rule Part 1, Chapter 3, §1 Preaching The Missionary co-operator of the Savior must imitate the example…
Posted: 22 Mar By Frank Santucci, omi Do not forget to visit: Eugene de Mazenod speaks to us. Just a click and you are there! As an outstanding preacher himself, Eugene had no patience with the flowery preachers who had style and played with words but had no solid content. His diary entries spare them no criticism, and in his Rule he wanted to ensure that his Missionaries never fell into this…
Do not forget to visit: Eugene de Mazenod speaks to us. Just a click and you are there! In our exploration of the 1818 Rule , we have seen how Eugene set out the goals of the Missionaries: preach the Gospel to the most abandoned, make up for the loss of the Orders and to correct the ravages caused by corrupt priests. Then 15 pages follow on the preaching of parish missions.…
Do not forget to visit: Eugene de Mazenod speaks to us. Just a click and you are there! Having enthused about the lofty ideals of the Missionaries and having drawn up the plan of action to achieve them, Eugene now returns to reality. The Nota Bene was written in response to the havoc being caused in the Church by priests who were not living up to the ideals of their vocation, who…
Do not forget to visit: Eugene de Mazenod speaks to us. Just a click and you are there! How to make this ideal a reality in the lives of the people the Missionaries were serving? Their methodology had three steps: to make men reasonable then Christians and finally to help them become saints. 1818 Rule, Part One, Chapter One, §3. Nota Bene. Missions, 78 (1951) p. 16 Firstly, it was necessary to…
