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Dictionary of Oblate Values
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PERSEVERANCE
The Oblate vow of perseverance has, besides a witness value, two effects: the stability of the individual […]
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POOR (THE)
Evangelizare pauperibus misit me…pauperes evangelizantur (“He has sent me to evangelize the poor”). This quotation from Luke […]
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POVERTY
Voluntary poverty has always been considered as an essential element of religious life. Without it, we cannot […]
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PRAYER-ORAISON
To adequately treat all forms of prayer from the time of the Founder to the present in […]
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PREFACE OF THE RULE
Some dozen Oblates have commented on our Constitutions and Rules [1]. Among them some referred only briefly […]
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PRIESTHOOD
Eugene de Mazenod One should not be surprised to find that de Mazenod, his successors, and the […]
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RELIGIOUS LIFE
Introduction Eugene de Mazenod did not have two vocations: one to the priesthood and the other to […]
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SACRED HEART (THE)
The present article lays no claim to giving a full explanation of the Church’s teaching on the […]
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SACRED SCRIPTURE
A person’s degree of familiarity with the Bible is an indication of his spiritual identity. It is […]
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SOURCES AND STUDIES ON OBLATE VALUES
Our Oblate spirituality emanates from two sources: the experience of the interior and apostolic life of the […]
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SPIRITUAL TESTAMENT OF EUGENE DE MAZENOD
The text of the testament and the circumstances surrounding it In the Congregation’s tradition, the Founder’s testament […]
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SUPERIORS
INTRODUCTION This article is divided into three parts, beginning with a presentation of the thought of the […]
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URGENT NEEDS
The term “urgent needs” is closely associated with a number of other key concepts in the Oblate […]
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WILL OF GOD (THE)
The Will of God in the Oblate Tradition 1. THE FOUNDER From the moment of his conversion […]
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ZEAL
In the course of writing this reflection on zeal it became apparent, from the very outset, that […]