{"id":24719,"date":"2018-07-22T00:00:40","date_gmt":"2018-07-21T22:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.claret.org\/22-july\/"},"modified":"2018-07-22T00:00:40","modified_gmt":"2018-07-21T22:00:40","slug":"22-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.claret.org\/de\/22-july\/","title":{"rendered":"22 July"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cFour main things: Silence, patience, prayer and hope. Because the merit is in one\u00b4s suffering with regard to what he sees, pains suffered unjustly (1Pet, 2, 19).<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Resolutions of the year 1859; en AEC p. 689<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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A CAUSE TO SUFFER<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
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Fleeing from suffering is instinctive; we seek relief for any pain. What do we do in the face of unjust suffering? Sometimes we seek the easy painkiller, \u201cIt may be God\u00b4s will\u201d. Thus we can degrade the faith converting it into an opium of the people (K. Marx).
\nToday Claret provides us with a guide for our behaviour before unjust suffering. Will it help us? The archbishop in Santiago de Cuba, perceived a lot of suffering, but he resigned himself to doing good; he created institutions aiming at alleviating pain. As an older man he himself was a victim of horrible persecutions. And he taught himself to suffer them with:
\nSilence. Certainly we should not remain silent. We cannot just cross our arms in the face of evil. But it is good to be in silence before acting. Only thus we shall avoid the wrong and revengeful reaction that would aggravate the situation. Silence helps us to contemplate not only on one\u00b4s own dignity but also on the dignity of the aggressor. Jesus only said, \u201cif I have spoken wrongly, point it out; but if I have spoken rightly, why do you strike me? (Jn 18:23).
\nPatience. Nothing happens all of a sudden. And it is not easy to face everything. I will need serenity, clarity to act reasonably. And acting with wisdom and style…..
\nPrayer. All must be looked at with the eyes of God and from the overall plan. He does not want suffering, but if he does wish, that when it comes, it contributes to our good. In prayer we will see God in the sufferings and we act with our mind placed in Him.
\nHope. The temptation of bitterness, hopelessness, resentment or sometimes the analgesics of \u201cevil\u201d resignation or conformism lie in wait for us. The hope leads us to act differently by seeing \u2013like St. Stephen- \u201cthe heavens opened\u201d and final triumph of good.
\nWhat are my experiences regarding my own or that of others\u2019 unjust sufferings? How do I react to them? Can such situations dominate me o am I master of them? What am I to learn? Lord, give me the grace of \u201ca style of life\u201d in defence of the innocent.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cFour main things: Silence, patience, prayer and hope. Because the merit is in one\u00b4s suffering with regard to what he sees, pains suffered unjustly (1Pet, 2, 19). Resolutions of the year 1859; en AEC p. 689 A CAUSE TO SUFFER Fleeing from suffering is instinctive; we seek relief for any pain. What do we do […]<\/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-24719","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-6qH","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.claret.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24719","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=24719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.claret.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24719\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.claret.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.claret.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.claret.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}