{"id":20505,"date":"2018-05-31T00:00:51","date_gmt":"2018-05-30T22:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.claret.org\/31-may\/"},"modified":"2018-05-31T00:00:51","modified_gmt":"2018-05-30T22:00:51","slug":"31-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.claret.org\/de\/31-may\/","title":{"rendered":"31 May"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u2018O Heart of Mary, forge and instrument of love, kindle in me the love of God and neighbour.\u2019<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Aut 447<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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IN MARY\u2019S FORGE<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
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Fiesta de la Visitaci\u00f3n. Cercan\u00eda de la Fiesta del I. Coraz\u00f3n de Mar\u00eda.
\nFr Claret had a special devotion to the Heart of Mary. He founded the Daughters of the Heart of Mary or \u2018Religious in their homes\u2019 (now secular institutes) and the Missionaries, Sons of the Heart of Mary. Wherever he missioned he established the Archconfraternity of the Heart of Mary. In a church in Vic he added a heart to the image of Our Lady of the Rosary. It seems that he was greatly influenced by the \u2018Annals of the Archconfraternity of the Heart of Mary\u2019 which worked in an important church in Paris.
\nBut Claret always gives a personal imprint to these external influences. On speaking of the \u2018Heart of Mary\u2019 he tried to enter into its interior, bearing in mind the biblical meaning of the world \u2018heart\u2019 and what the Gospels tell us about Mary: \u2018She kept all these things, and pondered them in her heart.\u2019 (Lk 2:19,51)
\nThe biblical \u2018heart\u2019 is the seat of the whole interior of a person and also, of course, of their affective life. Claret contemplates the Heart of Mary as a forge, a place of burning love. He sees her as the person who most loved Jesus and most identified herself with his project, passionate about the things of God and concerned about her neighbour (cf. the wedding feast at Cana). He cannot but ask participation in this interior fire, in order to take on with this same \u2018heat\u2019 the causes which captivated her.
\nClaret did not lose sight of Jesus\u2019 expression: \u201cI have come to bring fire upon the earth, and how I wish it were already kindled!\u201d (Lk 12:49) But there is a difference in meaning; in Jesus they were words of \u2018judgement\u2019 or of the apocalyptic transformation of the world and history. In Claret they meant a generalised spreading of charity, love for God and others; and he sees in Mary the one who can set hearts alight.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u2018O Heart of Mary, forge and instrument of love, kindle in me the love of God and neighbour.\u2019 Aut 447 IN MARY\u2019S FORGE Fiesta de la Visitaci\u00f3n. Cercan\u00eda de la Fiesta del I. Coraz\u00f3n de Mar\u00eda. Fr Claret had a special devotion to the Heart of Mary. He founded the Daughters of the Heart of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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-20505","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-5kJ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.claret.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20505","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.claret.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.claret.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.claret.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.claret.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.claret.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}