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...

19 April

“As regards the foundation of Jaca, I do not know what to tell you, I always fearful in giving advice concerning the...

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18 April

True peace is not found in the retreat and withdrawal from the task which God wants to entrust to his servants. When...

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17 April

“When people receive communion only once a year, there is much coldness, when they receive communion twice a year,...

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16 April

“The Spirit of the Lord inspires where it wills, when it wills and whom it wills,. On our part, the important thing is...

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15 April

The doctors and Fathers of the Church say that if the tree is known by its fruits as it is written in the Gospel, what...

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14 April

According to the comparison which St. Augustine took from the prophet David, the examples of the saints are to us,...

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13 April

There are many rooms in the Father’s house, and each will be given glory according to the faithfulness with which they...

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12 April

Most Blessed Mother, may the courtesy of your Immaculate Heart, in accepting us as your Sons, be praised a thousand...

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11 April

Procure and do every possible good to your neighbour, spiritual and corporal, temporal and eternal. And when it is not...

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10 April

“ I had to overcome many difficulties at the hands of the ecclesiastical superiors and the population before I could...

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9 April

I will try to maintain the same humour and equilibrium without letting myself be highly predominated over by sadness...

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8 April

“ I am so soft-hearted and compassionate that I can't bear seeing misfortune or misery without doing something to...

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7 April

The most holy Virgin lived poorly and died very poorly. Religiosas en sus casas o las Hijas del Santísimo é Inmaculado...

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6 April

It was not difficult for God to create the riches of heaven and earth. With just a word, let it be done, all was...

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5 April

We should love the most holy Virgin Mary because it is what God wants… To love is to want the best for the one loved,...

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4 April

“And this forced me to ask the Superior to relieve me of my duty as Regent and free me from any parish obligations and...

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3 April

For the peoples, Provinces and Kingdoms to have peace and prosperity and be happy, it is important that they try and...

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2 April

“To be Mary’s devotee is a sign of predestination, just as it is a sign of disapproval not to be her devotee or to...

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1 April

We should love the Blessed Virgin Mary because she deserves it. Mary the most Holy deserves it for the many graces she...

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31 March

“During that whole seven years, I was on the go from one town to another. I traveled alone and on foot. I had a...

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30 March

“…I turn to the Lord and ask Him with all my heart, "O my Lord, you are my love, my honor, my hope, and my refuge! You...

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29 March

“Humility is like the root of the tree, and meekness is its fruit” Aut 372 ROOT AND FRUIT OF CHRISTIAN LIFE Actually a...

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28 March

“Experience has taught me that one of the most powerful forces for good is the press, although when abused it can also...

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27 March

“My God, I wish that I could prevent anyone from offending you; rather, I wish that I could make you known, loved, and...

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26 March

“Many times each day I ask Jesus to help me understand what he wants me to do with regard to our Project, because I am...

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25 March

“The Heart of Mary was the Temple of the Holy Spirit and more than a temple because from the most pure blood of this...

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24 March

“The soul that with meditation does not go back on the wings of faith to the Creator of all things, and who is more...

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23 March

“How narrow and depressed is the human heart to receive that which is opposing and painful to its earthly...

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22 March

“I will think that God is looking at me. I will think that God is talking to me with inspirations and dispositions… I...

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21 March

“Jesus Christ instituted the Blessed Sacrament so as to stay with us until the end of the world. What a love! For the...

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20 March

“Here I am completely tied down in an archdiocese, when my spirit is really for the whole world: even in this little...

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19 March

“News of the technical ability the Lord had given me spread through Barcelona. This moved some gentlemen to call on my...

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18 March

“What used to hurt me the most was to hear that my parents would have to scold a worker for not doing his job...

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