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Our mission is to proclaim the Kingdom of God and to seek it before all else. We fulfill this mission in community; and our communities are a sign that, in Jesus, God is everything for us.
(Oblate Constitutions and Rules, C.11)
Missionaries
Our Founder, St. Eugene de Mazenod, looked upon the world of his day and saw people whose lives
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Brothers Gedion Knoti OMI and Dionisius Mwandiki OMI, work with children from the slums of Meru, Kenya
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had hardly been touched by the message of Christ. Today, we continue to see people who have not experienced fully the love of the risen Lord.
We share our Founder’s faith vision and his confidence. And we accept again his mission as our own. WE ARE MISSIONARIES. Our motto is: He sent me to evangelize the poor; the poor are being evangelized.
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The Oblate Charism, Constitutions and Rules, Evangelization of the Poor and Vowed Life |
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Disciples of Jesus, with the heart of Mary Immaculate, sons and daughters of Eugene de Mazenod, we are called to be Oblate missionaries in this time and place.
As daring members of the prophetic Church, we stand with the voiceless, hearing and making heard their cry, which is a cry to God who brings down the powerful and lifts up the lowly.
In so doing, we risk finding ourselves among the marginalized of our community, our society and our church, taking our place among the poor and powerless, walking with those who, like us, hold within themselves tremendous beauty, strengths and gifts as well as weaknesses, brokenness and limitations, that together we may help one another experience the love of God, so we may be healed and give of ourselves in the service of the continuous unfolding of the reign of God within creation. |
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