Please visit Eugen de Mazenod speaks to us Can I forget the bitter tears that the sight of the Cross brought streaming from my eyes one Good Friday? Tears of sorrow because: I had looked for happiness outside of God and for too long with resulting unhappiness. Tears that changed into expressions of peace and joy as he realized how much God loved him: Blessed, a thousand times blessed, that he, this…
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…
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…
From the North through the west, the day has been full of stories ranging from good news through unfavorable ones. The major ones are the imminent travel of the Pope Benedict XVI, Coup d’état in Mali, the decision of UN asking the Colombo government to investigate the killings that took place during the long lasted civil war, the death of Mohamed Mera after a 30 hours of attempt to bring him under…
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…
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…
