{"id":23731,"date":"2018-07-08T00:00:39","date_gmt":"2018-07-07T22:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.claret.org\/?p=23731"},"modified":"2018-07-08T00:00:48","modified_gmt":"2018-07-07T22:00:48","slug":"8-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.claret.org\/de\/8-july\/","title":{"rendered":"8 July"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cMy God, how good you are! How rich in mercy you have been to me! If you had given others the graces you have given me, they would have cooperated with them so much more. Mercy, Lord: I’ll begin to be good from now on, with the help of your grace\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Aut 21<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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RESPONDING TO THE GRACE<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
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To be grateful to God and others for all they have done for us and for others is obligatory and truly praiseworthy: to be aware of what we are by the grace of the God of life, thanks to our parents, our families, to our teachers, to our friends and so many persons who have shown their love, sacrificed their lives for us, given us confidence, formation, support and a lot more.
\nCertainly, beginning with God, he has offered all this expecting nothing in return; it is purely out of love and so gratuitous.
\nBut certainly the gifts we have received make us responsible before God and others. These gifts are not for our use, but for the good of \u201cthe whole body\u201d, as St. Paul would say. That is why we should feel impelled to respond to the generous love as Father Claret did. It must be first of all, through our gratefulness and then generously making fruitful the gift we have received.
\nWith his great humility, Claret recognized himself as a \u201cpack-mule\u201d loaded with jewels, namely, bearer of a wealth that did not belong to him. And he considered that those gifts and abilities could not be left unfruitful. It is here we see his incredible work rate. It seems that during his life he did not sleep more than 3 or 4 hours. It is only thus he could write 120 literary works with an educative- pastoral approach despite dedicating a greater part of his days for preaching, spiritual direction and attending the penitents in the confessional.
\nHow do we thank and respond to God for all the good we have received from him?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cMy God, how good you are! How rich in mercy you have been to me! If you had given others the graces you have given me, they would have cooperated with them so much more. Mercy, Lord: I’ll begin to be good from now on, with the help of your grace\u201d Aut 21 RESPONDING TO […]<\/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-23731","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-6aL","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.claret.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23731","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=23731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.claret.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23731\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.claret.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.claret.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.claret.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}