Spirituality and Community Life

Fussimanya App, the New Spiritual Directory of the Claretian Missionaries

Rome, Italy. On October 24, 2023, the Feast of St. Anthony Mary Claret, the General Prefect of Spirituality and Community Life, relaunched the Fussimanya App on both the App Store and Google Play marketplaces. Initially launched in March 2021 as a simple Claretian...

FORGE 07/23 Takes Off At Los Negrales

Madrid, Spain: The seventh English edition of FORGE, the signature renewal encounter of Claretian Missionaries, took off colorfully at Los Negrales on Sunday, October 1, 2023, with the Mass of the Holy Spirit, presided over by Rev. Fr. Anthony Obikonu Igbokwe, CMF,...

Claretian Missionaries of the General Curia Find Spiritual Renewal in Formia

Formia, Italy. The Claretian Missionaries of the General Curia have embarked on a spiritual retreat from September 25th to 29th, 2023 in the coastal town of Formia, situated approximately two hours from Rome. The Spiritual Exercises were guided by Fr. Antonio Bellella...

Reunited To Revise The Forge

Madrid, Spain. In his Autobiography, Claret shared an allegory about The Forge that provides interesting insight. He compared his own personal development in Vic to a bar of iron in a locksmith's workshop. Like the bar of iron, Claret was placed on an anvil, heated in...

14 July

“I owe God endless thanks for providing me such good companions. The conduct of all of them was above reproach. They...

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13 July

“Christ our Lord is a good model of this way of working heroically: he went by foot tirelessly to all the villages of...

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12 July

“The one who has zeal, desires and tries by all means possible that God be known, loved and served in this life and in...

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11 July

“His only concern is how he can best follow Jesus Christ and imitate Him in working, suffering, and striving...

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10 July

“To conserve and increase this love or charity, you have to see Jesus Christ himself in each one of our neighbours in...

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9 July

“My God, how good and wonderful you have been to me! You surely used strange means to uproot me from the world and an...

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8 July

“My God, how good you are! How rich in mercy you have been to me! If you had given others the graces you have given...

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7 July

“In these last times it seems God wants the laity to have an important role in the salvation of the souls” Las...

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6 July

“When Jesus Christ and his doctrine are despised, life is despised in the moral and social intelligence. A nation´s...

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5 July

“Jesus tells those who receive Holy Communion, `Take, drink and eat; this is my body, broken for you; take and drink;...

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4 July

“But I tell you, with St. Paul, that I am not afraid of any of these things, nor do I esteem my life more than my...

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3 July

“Catholic religion alone, divine in its origin, divine in its propagation, divine in its conservation, tells man: With...

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2 July

“[Mary] is the channel from heaven through which all the graces we need flow to keep us away from evil and to do good....

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1 July

“Tomorrow I leave for a town called Pinto for preaching and administering the sacrament of confirmation; and then I...

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30 June

*43.- “Also the zeal of St. Paul has always awakened my deepest enthusiasm. He went from place to place, a chosen...

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29 June

*359 “I am much encouraged in reading about what the apostles did and suffered. St. Peter in his first sermon...

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28 June

*266 “As much as the enemies of religion keep awake, we are asleep; they keep the printing presses going day and...

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27 June

*108 Let us do things as one who serves Christ and not man, and in this way will we do them well, in a good way and...

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26 June

*246.- “I will say before meals: Lord, I eat to have strength and serve you better. Before going to bed: Lord, I do...

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25 June

*236.- “It is not enough to have a confessor to whom to present with sincerity our sins; We need also a teacher to...

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24 June

*226.- “Jesus gave us the Blesses Virgin Mary as our Mother. He entrusted us to care for her as mother, and she will...

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23 June

*216.- “I will be like a Servant who does only what his master wants. I will imitate Jesus during the thirty years of...

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22 June

*206.- “I resolve to keep an even temper and disposition, never allowing myself to be carried away by anger,...

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21 June

*89.- “I have never made a retreat so full of sufferings and trials but neither, perhaps, so replete with great...

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20 June

The services I liked best were those connected with the Blessed Sacrament, and I attended these with great devotion...

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18 June

The good communicant compares well to the iron rod that is placed into the forge where it becomes fire. Yes the soul...

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19 June

“from the savings that I have in this I will send him something; when we get this case we will use D. Lorenzo so that...

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17 June

The good communicant compares well to the iron rod that is placed into the forge where it becomes fire. Yes the soul...

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16 June

Just as the body has its food, the soul also has its own food, which is the Eucharist. It is called the bread of...

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15 June

…”you are a priest and a prelate of the Church, a minister of Jesus Christ” Aut 585 APPRECIATION OF ONE’S VOCATION The...

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