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*266 \u201cAs much as the enemies of religion keep awake, we are asleep; they keep the printing presses going day and night, on work days and feast days, and we abandon the poor Religious Bookstore, that has done so much good and could still do more if you and the brothers would lend a charitable hand.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Letter to Mgr., Caixal, 22.8.65, in EC II, p923<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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LET US NOT TIRE FROM DOING GOOD (Galatians 6:9)<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
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The first thing that echoes in our hearts and minds on reading this fragmentary extract of Claret\u2019s letter, are the words of Jesus:
\n\u201cThe children of this world are more astute in dealing with their own kind than are the children of light.\u201d (Luke 16:8)
\nAnd the letter talks about something that is a lively and burning topic, as is the mass media. Fr. Claret not only noted the importance of the written word and of it being widely distibuted, but searched for means by which to bring it about, by founding the publishing house of the \u2018Religious Bookstore.\u2019
\nIn these lines there is a tone of complaint.
\n\u201cWe could do more, and better\u201d, they seem to say, or \u201cThose who have interests less honest than ours find the means to enable their claims to be spread to the wider public, while we, on the other hand, are straggling behind\u201d
\nSometimes it happens that we don\u2019t have an evangelical spirit or the dynamism or inner fire that Claret had, which would be noticed at the time we need to be on fire with enthusiasm in order to inflame others.
\nBut the challenge is there, defying our creative imagination, our capacity to work with others and to combine forces in order that the evangelical word be spread by all the means that technology has put within reach of humanity. With humility and simplicity, but also without fear or complexities.
\nIf the first Christian communities had been afraid of the mass media of the time, we wouldn\u2019t have the New Testament today. If we limit ourselves to criticising the present mass media without making a serious effort to enter into it positively, then we are preventing the Christian message reaching an increasing sector of society, especially new generations. Without a doubt, Claret would say to us today: \u201cBrothers, never tire of doing good\u201d (2 Thess. 3:13)
\nTo what do I dedicate more time and energy: to criticising whatever doesn\u2019t seem right to me, or creatively encouraging positive initiatives for building up the kingdom of God<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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*266 \u201cAs much as the enemies of religion keep awake, we are asleep; they keep the printing presses going day and night, on work days and feast days, and we abandon the poor Religious Bookstore, that has done so much good and could still do more if you and the brothers would lend a charitable […]<\/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-22483","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-5QD","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.claret.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22483","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=22483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.claret.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.claret.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.claret.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.claret.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}