{"id":23961,"date":"2018-07-14T00:00:24","date_gmt":"2018-07-13T22:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.claret.org\/?p=23961"},"modified":"2018-07-14T00:00:37","modified_gmt":"2018-07-13T22:00:37","slug":"14-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.claret.org\/de\/14-july\/","title":{"rendered":"14 July"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cI owe God endless thanks for providing me such good companions. The conduct of all of them was above reproach. They never caused me a moment’s pain; on the contrary, they were all a great comfort to me. All had good dispositions and solid virtue, and they were so detached from worldly cares that they never once spoke or thought of self-interest or honours. Their only concern was for God’s greater glory and the conversion of souls. \u201cThey gladly set themselves to do whatever I asked, whether it was my commonest request–to go on missions–or something like taking charge of a parish or deanery\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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AN IDEAL CLARETIAN FOR COMMUNITY<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
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St. Anthony Mary Claret describes in his Autobiography the persons who accompanied him to carry out his Episcopal ministry in the diocese of Santiago de Cuba, a diocese \u201cfull of thorns and thistles\u201d (Auto. 606). He remembers them lovingly and gratefully. He describes his apostolic activities, remembers their almost cloistered monastic timetable in the house and narrates the type of fraternal relationship that was reigning among them. The outsiders admired them when they saw them. Claret gave all the merit to God, \u201cThe finger of God is here\u201d.
\nIt is possible to distinguish between a team for work and a missionary community. What distinguishes them is the degree of mutual loyalty, fraternal living and the corresponsibility taken up with a true spirit. Thus the progress towards the aim, the objectives and final destination is achieved. When this spirit is missing, there can be a lot of work, but there will not be the spirit that gives the generous commitment in view of a noble cause.
\nThe persons who were living with the Archbishop Claret in Cuba were not only a good team capable of undertaking a frontier work as required for that island. They were also an authentic missionary community marked by the presence of the Spirit that had brought them together and was sending them to carry out the mission. But they were also collaborating with the power of the Spirit. And Claret was the first person to do it. Without this collaboration and his missionary availability that team would have been collapsed in no time.
\nYou yourself can observe in your parish, diocese, in the Church in general if there is an authentic participation of all the members in the tasks entrusted by Jesus to the Christian community, if there is a true missionary community…. or only \u201cthe clergy\u201d do things or the rest, the friends of the priest collaborate; or is there a real pastoral and evangelizing project, in shared mission by priests, religious and laity.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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