A Mother's Heart...
Eugene de Mazenod's Gift to the Oblate Congragation
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A Mother's Heart... Eugene de Mazenod's Gift to the Oblate Congragation
Henriette Kelker
1 March, 1999
Source
Henriette Kelker, “A Mother’s Heart…Eugene de Mazenod’s Gift to the Oblate Congregation”, 1 March, 1999.
Resources
1 (Back to Article) . Psalm 71:8
2 (Back to Article) . Pope Pius IX, Ineffabilis Deus, 1854.
3 (Back to Article) . Fr. Maurice Giroux. "Our Founder's Devotion to Mary Immaculate." In: Etudes Oblates, Tome 3 No.4, Octobre-Decembre 1944.
4 (Back to Article) . See for a detailed discussion of these influences A. Hubenig,O.M.I. Living in the Spirit's Fire. Toronto: Novalis, 1991.
5 (Back to Article) . Hubenig, p. 250.
6 (Back to Article) . Hubenig, p. 251-252.
7 (Back to Article) . Hubenig, p. 261.
8 (Back to Article) . Hubenig, p. 251.
9 (Back to Article) . Hubenig, p. 252.
10 (Back to Article) . Aime Roche. The Blessed Eugene de Mazenod. Lyon: Paul Bondy, C.D., Editions du Chalet, 1974.
11 (Back to Article) . Meunier, Rev. Ovila-A. "Our Founder's Spiritual Makeup" in Etudes Oblats, Tome 1 No.2, April-Juin 1942.
12 (Back to Article) . 9 octobre, 1815
13 (Back to Article) . St. Charles de Borromo, *** encyclopedia
14 (Back to Article) . Maurice Agulhon. Marianne into battle: Republican imagery and symbolism in France, 1789-1880. 1979. Janet Lloyd, transl. Cambridge: cambridge Univ. Press, 1981
15 (Back to Article) . *** encyclopedia
16 (Back to Article) . In 1854, the Apostolic Constitution defining the dogma of the Immaculate Conception, Ineffabilis Deus, was issued, affirming the wisdom and authority of the Church: "... From the very beginning, and before time began, the eternal Father chose and prepared for is only-begotten Son a Mother in whom the Son of God would become incarnate and from whom, in the blessed fullness of time, he would be born into this world. Above all creatures did God so love her that truly in her was the Father well pleased with singular delight. Therefore, far above all the angels and all the saints so wondrously did God endow her of his divinity that this mother, ever absolutely free of all stain of sin, all fair and all perfect, would possess that fullness of holy innocence and sanctity than which, under God, one cannot even imagine anything greater and which, outside of God, no mind can succeed in comprehending fully....
... For such is the eminent dignity and authority which belong to her that she is the centre of Catholic unity, that unity in which alone is inviolably guaranteed the deposit of religion, from which all the other churches must receive the tradition of the faith."
17 (Back to Article) . Ultramontanism (literally "those who look beyond the mountains, the Alps, to Rome) emerged in France as a reaction to liberal currents of thought. In: Richard MacBrien. Catholicism, Study edition. Minneapolis: Winston Press, 1981. p. 642.
18 (Back to Article) . R.P. Robrecht Boudens. "Mgr. de Mazenod et la definition du dogme de l'Immaculee Conception." In: Etudes Oblates, Tome 14, No. 1, Janvier-Mars 1955.
19 (Back to Article) . Meunier, p. 80.
20 (Back to Article) . MacBrien, p. 881.
21 (Back to Article) . Edward Schillebeeckx in Edward Schillebeeckx, OP, and Catharina Halkes. Mary Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow. New York: Crossroad, 1993, p 15.
Schillebeeckx adds that "because the council forthrightly rejected the new title 'Mary, mother of the church', which had been introduced surreptitiously, but on the other hand did speak of Mary's 'spiritual motherhood of all believers', Paul VI felt called on to satisfy the minority position in the council in the final gathering of the third session of the council by making Mary 'mother of the church' on his own personal, and thus non-conciliar, authority."
22 (Back to Article) . MacBrien, p. 883.
23 (Back to Article) . Hubenig, p. 241.
24 (Back to Article) . Hubenig, p. 241.
25 (Back to Article) . Constitution and Rules of the Congregation of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate, Rome 1982. p. 15,17.
26 (Back to Article) . Constitution and Rules, p. 18.
27 (Back to Article) . Constitution and Rules, p. 22.
28 (Back to Article) . Hubenig, p. 287.
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