Dictionary of Oblate Values

• PATRONS OF THE CONGREGATION

  PATRONS OF THE CONGREGATION A distinctly Oblate prayer is that of the litany of the saints invoked […]

• PERSEVERANCE

  The Oblate vow of perseverance has, besides a witness value, two effects: the stability of the individual […]

• POOR (THE)

  Evangelizare pauperibus misit me…pauperes evangelizantur (“He has sent me to evangelize the poor”). This quotation from Luke […]

• POVERTY

  Voluntary poverty has always been considered as an essential element of religious life. Without it, we cannot […]

• PRAYER-ORAISON

  To adequately treat all forms of prayer from the time of the Founder to the present in […]

• PREFACE OF THE RULE

  Some dozen Oblates have commented on our Constitutions and Rules [1]. Among them some referred only briefly […]

• PRIESTHOOD

  Eugene de Mazenod One should not be surprised to find that de Mazenod, his successors, and the […]