{"id":17967,"date":"2018-05-11T00:00:32","date_gmt":"2018-05-10T22:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.claret.org\/11-may\/"},"modified":"2018-05-11T00:00:32","modified_gmt":"2018-05-10T22:00:32","slug":"11-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.claret.org\/de\/11-may\/","title":{"rendered":"11 May"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u2018Since my voyage to Rome was not intended as a pleasure trip but one in which to work and suffer for Jesus Christ, I felt that I ought to look for the humblest and poorest place aboard so as to have a better chance of suffering.\u2019<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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FOLLOWING CHRIST, POOR AND HUMBLE<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
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Claret went to Rome in order to offer himself to be sent to the missions in any country in the world. In the boat he sought out the poorest, humblest place, which effectively gave him the opportunity to suffer. He bought a \u2018ticket for standing-room on the deck near the bow, which was the poorest and cheapest passage\u2019. And he got ready to spend the night sat on \u2018a pile of coiled rope\u2019, leaning his head on \u2018an artillery piece\u2019.
\nWhile he was thinking of Jesus resting in the boat on the lake of Gennesaret, \u2018sleeping on a cushion\u2019 (Mk 4:38) a big wave drenched Claret from top to bottom and soaked his luggage: a shirt, a pair of socks, a handkerchief, a razor, a comb, some bread and piece of cheese (which was all his food for the five day voyage from Marseille to Civitavecchia!).
\nClaret lived in poverty so that his life would bear witness against the desire for riches. Contemplating that, in the Gospels, Jesus did not avoid poverty, work or suffering in order to complete the mission entrusted to him by the Father for humanity, Claret wanted to imitate this.
\nTherefore, years later, writing the \u2018Definition of a Missionary\u2019 this sentence came from his own life: the missionary\u2019s \u2018only concern is how he can best follow Jesus Christ and imitate Him in working, suffering, and striving constantly and single-mindedly for the greater glory of God and the salvation of souls.\u2019 (Aut 494)
\nNowadays, when so many people seek to work a little and get a lot, suffer nothing and enjoy themselves without limits, it is logical that \u2018Walking with Claret\u2019 will ask if you value work and if you bear the inevitable suffering in your daily life well, following Jesus so as to improve the lives of all.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u2018Since my voyage to Rome was not intended as a pleasure trip but one in which to work and suffer for Jesus Christ, I felt that I ought to look for the humblest and poorest place aboard so as to have a better chance of suffering.\u2019 Aut 130 FOLLOWING CHRIST, POOR AND HUMBLE Claret went […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[524],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-claret-mit-dir"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdaBmi-4FN","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.claret.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.claret.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.claret.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.claret.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.claret.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.claret.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17967\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.claret.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.claret.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.claret.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}