Features Thu, 23 Jan 2025 01:57:40 -0500 Website design by Concerto Designs concertodesigns.ca en-gb Imitate St. Joseph in service, hiddenness, Pope says /faith/item/27915-imitate-st-joseph-in-service-hiddenness-pope-says /faith/item/27915-imitate-st-joseph-in-service-hiddenness-pope-says VATICAN – Pope Francis told the Oblates of St. Joseph that for decades he has relied on the intercession of St. Joseph, and "never, ever has he told me no."
]]> cns@catholicregister.org (Catholic News Service) Faith Fri, 31 Aug 2018 09:58:18 -0400 The Oblates: 200 years at the edges /faith/columnists/item/22361-the-oblates-200-years-at-the-edges /faith/columnists/item/22361-the-oblates-200-years-at-the-edges

What we cease to celebrate we will soon cease to cherish. This year marks the 200th anniversary of the founding of the religious congregation to which I belong, the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate. We have a proud history, 200 years now, of ministering to the poor around the world. This merits celebrating.  

]]> frronrolheiser@catholicregister.org (Fr. Ron Rolheiser) Fr. Ron Rolheiser Fri, 20 May 2016 13:59:09 -0400 An inspiration so powerful it has endured for 200 years /features/item/21642-an-inspiration-so-powerful-it-has-endured-for-200-years /features/item/21642-an-inspiration-so-powerful-it-has-endured-for-200-years

On Jan. 25, 1816, six priests came together in Aix en Provence, France, drawn by an inspiration so powerful they were prepared to dedicate their lives to it. They were roused into action by the situation of the poor people around them, whose lives were changed by the events of the French Revolution.

]]> The Oblates at 200 Sun, 24 Jan 2016 08:00:55 -0500 Eugene de Mazenod: a shepherd of his people /features/item/21641-eugene-de-mazenod-a-shepherd-of-his-people /features/item/21641-eugene-de-mazenod-a-shepherd-of-his-people

St. Eugene de Mazenod was born in 1782 in Aix-en-Provence, France. His father, Charles Antoine, was a member of the French nobility and the President of the Aix parliament. His mother, Marie-Rose Joannis, was affiliated with the expeditiously evolving bourgeois merchants.

]]> The Oblates at 200 Sat, 23 Jan 2016 16:43:20 -0500 The Oblates: GodöÏÓãÊÓƵapp servants for 200 years /features/item/21640-the-oblates-god-s-servants-for-200-years /features/item/21640-the-oblates-god-s-servants-for-200-years

Two hundred years ago the French aristocrat Eugene de Mazenod gathered a few priests into a kind of evangelical team in southeastern France. They went into neglected, impoverished parishes preaching in the local dialect of Provençal, not French, sharing their lives and the Gospel with poor people who had been left behind by modern France.

]]> mikes@catholicregister.org (Michael Swan, The Catholic Register) The Oblates at 200 Sat, 23 Jan 2016 14:02:57 -0500 The Oblates at 200 /features/item/21690-the-oblates-at-200 /features/item/21690-the-oblates-at-200

A history of service

]]> crstaff@catholicregister.org (Catholic Register Staff) The Oblates at 200 Fri, 22 Jan 2016 11:59:10 -0500