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Welcome to the vocations site of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate, OMI Lacombe Canada Province. We’re glad you are here and invite you to take a look around. It’s our hope that this site will be a help to you in your ongoing search for God’s will for in your life. Our vocations site will help you to learn about discernment, and about the mission and ministry of the Oblates in Canada and around the world.
Do not hesitate to contact Fr Ken Thorson, our vocation director, at any time if you have any questions or if you would like more information.
Community
Early in his ministry, St Eugene realized that a community would be necessary for mutual support and to ensure a significant impact with the ministry. The mission is what draws us and it is community that nurtures us.
Community is God's gift to us, and through us a gift to all people. Among other things it signifies the communal life to which all of humanity is called. Community is good news for the Church and for the world and it is in this sense that community is itself already a form of mission.
We truly believe that community is a great value and we invite you to make it both a source of and place for integral growth. And it will be that a place for real growth if it is built around Christ; if prayer permeates its life; if the sharing of faith and life is its normal practice; if we, its members, have the courage to live a healthy transparency; if our lifestyles are simple and conformed to the vows that we profess; if pardon and reconciliation are embraced as gifts of the Spirit and the fruit of discernment; if the ministry of each of us is shared and reviewed with the others; if each person takes an interest in the work of the others; and if it is full of compassion sensitive to the trials of those around it and actively engaged in trying to relieve their needs.
Excerpt from Letter of the 1998 General Chapter to the Oblates