{"id":28648,"date":"2018-09-09T00:00:16","date_gmt":"2018-09-08T22:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.claret.org\/?p=28648"},"modified":"2018-09-09T00:00:21","modified_gmt":"2018-09-08T22:00:21","slug":"9-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.claret.org\/de\/9-september\/","title":{"rendered":"9 September"},"content":{"rendered":"
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*363.- \u201cNow that you call God, Father, and he is, behave like a good son; be afraid to give him the smallest displeasure and strive to please him in all things, just as Jesus has taught us.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Carta Asc\u00e9tica\u2026 al presidente de uno de los coros de la Academia de San Miguel. Barcelona 1862, p.4<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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LOVE LEADS TO GRATITUDE<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
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The God of the Old Testament is presented as God \u2013friend, God \u2013 husband or God \u2013 Father. I invite you today to read Ch. 11 of Hosea and there we contemplate the tenderness of God who, on thinking of his people\u2013son, \u2018my heart is troubled within me and I am moved with compassion\u2019. You can also read in Deuteronomy 32: 5-6 where it says, \u2018He is your father, your creator who formed you. Yet he has been treated perversely by his degenerate children\u2019. Those who see in Yahveh only a fearful and angry God miss a lot.
\nJesus stressed still more this paternal aspect of God; he almost always refers to him as \u2018Father\u2019 and he calls on him with the diminutive Abba, which rather means \u2018daddy\u2019 with a special nuance of tenderness. The followers of Jesus join in this filiation and that is why Jesus taught them to pray to God calling him \u2018Father\u2019 (we remember the \u2018Our Father\u2019). This quickly came into normal church use: the Galatians, despite speaking a Celtic language and the Romans who spoke Latin or Greek called on God with the word Abba (cf. Gal 4:6, Rom. 8:15)
\nClaret soon identified himself with this filial spirituality. Speaking of his praying as a child he writes: \u2018I would speak to God, my good Father\u2019. (Aut. 40) At that young age he began to feel a vocation to be an apostle to work for the salvation of his brothers and to avoid sin, which is \u2018an infinite offense against my God, against my good Father.\u2019 (Aut 16)
\nFilial spirituality is related to love whose consequence is obedience. Jesus said, \u2018My food is to do the will of the one who sent me; (Jn. 4:34). Claret wants to imitate him in this availability and prays: \u2018My Lord and Father, I want nothing more than to know your holy will, so that I may do it; nothing more than to love you with all my heart and serve you with all fidelity\u2019. (Aut. 136)
\nHow is your relationship with God, the Father? Does it arouse in you feelings of love? Do you burn with desire to please him, so that everything you do is done according to his will?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

*363.- \u201cNow that you call God, Father, and he is, behave like a good son; be afraid to give him the smallest displeasure and strive to please him in all things, just as Jesus has taught us.\u201d Carta Asc\u00e9tica\u2026 al presidente de uno de los coros de la Academia de San Miguel. Barcelona 1862, p.4 […]<\/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-28648","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-7s4","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.claret.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28648","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=28648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.claret.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.claret.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.claret.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.claret.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}