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Pope: The Christian has a big heart that welcomes all
(Vatican Radio) The heart of the Christian is magnanimous because we were born of a loving Father and our arms should be open wide to welcome everyone with generosity – that’s what the Pope said at Thursday morning’s Mass at the Santa Marta guesthouse in the Vatican. Among those attending the Mass was a number of priests who celebrated with the Pope their 50th year of ordination.
200 years of Oblates of Mary Immaculate, part 1
On Monday, Feb. 25, the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate reached a milestone in their history – the 200 years of their founding. The story of the OMI begins amidst the ashes of the great upheaval of the French Revolution which has had repercussions worldwide. It was an era when the Catholic Church in France was devastated and held in contempt and ridicule. Nevertheless, on Feb. 25, 1816 in Aix-en-Provence in southern France near Marseille, a handful of zealous priests headed by their leader Eugene de Mazenod committed themselves to serving the lost, the least and the last, bringing them the Good News of Jesus. That group of evangelizers, which later came to be known as the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate, today has some 4,000-members worldwide. To know about the OMI and their 200 years, we talked to Sri Lankan Oblate Father Shanil Jayawardena, the director of communications and webmaster of the OMI here at the order’s headquarters in Rome. Fr. Jayawardena begins the first of
