Posted on 14 Mar 2012 in Eugene de Mazenod speaks to us. Just a click on the link will bring you in full contact with much more other elaborated texts. Do not forget to have a look on it. In his Rule, Eugene shares his enthusiastic vision that embraces the whole world. The way to “become” this ideal is to do what Jesus did: In a word, put into practice the same…
Do not forget to visit: Eugene de Mazenod speaks to us. Just a click and you are there! The remedy to the tragic situation of the Church – and specifically to the harm done by the “laziness, indifference and corruption among the priests” – proposed by Eugene is that of the good example of the priests. “Example is leadership,” said Albert Schweitzer – and it was difficult to find anyone more convinced…
Having reflected on the damage caused to the Church by bad priests, Eugene dipped his quill into the inkwell and launched into an impassioned reflection of the vocation of the Missionary. NOTA BENE, he writes: take note! The text that follows is known to us as “The Preface” in the form in which we have received it. Eugene aimed to counteract the ravage caused by bad priests by holding up the ideal…
One of those areas where the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate continue to show their love for the most abandoned and desire to assure that justice is not just a desire but a reality is in peace talk. Here is a good example of such involvement. In this article: Muslim clerics back gun amnesty in ARMM By John Unson[1] we can see a pratical example of such areas where the Oblates remain…
So far we have seen that in the Rule, Eugene specified that the main aim of the Missionaries was to preach the Gospel to the most abandoned. Then he began to list the secondary aims, starting with that of making up for the vacuum left in the Church by the disappearance of the religious orders. He continued with a third aim: Article 1. A no less important end of their Institute, an…
23/02/2012 Italy Last December, Lucia Borzaga, the sister of Father Mario, whose process for beatification is in motion, received notice from the Acilia district of Rome about some streets dedicated to Oblates. Father Angelo PELIS asked for confirmation of this from the appropriate office in the city of Rome. The person responsible for the committee that chooses names, Doctor De Pascalis, responded immediately. It should be noted that in Rome, street names…
As one must have noticed, we are actually bringing to a general knowledge, certain aspects of life of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate, omi. We deem it necessary, however, to notify that the articles are not ours as we must have recognized it, but that of Fr. Frank Santucci, omi, specialist of the founder of the omis. We are just sharing these articles from his blog dedicated to the founder, Eugene…
The first article of the Constitution of any group is always the one which defines the purpose and juridical nature of the group. Eugene’s first paragraph does exactly this. The purpose of the Institute of the Missionaries of Provence Until 1826 we were known as the Missionaries of Provence, before changing the name to Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate. is first of all to form a group of priests who live together…
The comments on the Arab spring, which until now had been sailing on the open sea swept along by the wind of enthusiasm, have gone beyond the turning point and at the end of a year full of events are cautiously beginning to return to safer harbours. The observers who in the hot days of protest had put forward the idea of a new beginning capable of cancelling a traditionally non-transparent and…
Since the first bomb explosion on 1st October 2009 at the Eagle Square in Abuja, one can no longer count how many other bomb explosions the country has witnessed. Responsibility for most of these explosions, if not all, has been claimed by the extremist Islamic sect tagged Boko Haram (Western education is forbidden). Generally based in the north-east of Nigeria (Borno State), the activities of the Islamic sect have now spread to…
