{"id":28910,"date":"2018-09-18T00:00:42","date_gmt":"2018-09-17T22:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.claret.org\/?p=28910"},"modified":"2018-09-18T00:00:46","modified_gmt":"2018-09-17T22:00:46","slug":"18-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.claret.org\/de\/18-september\/","title":{"rendered":"18 September"},"content":{"rendered":"
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*179.- \u201cIt would be good to take advantage of the occasion to do missions, now that the Lord has granted these ceasefires. I don\u2019t know how long they will last. I will just say that from the outside they are looking for pretexts to fight. The same thing happened in the fable about the lamb and the wolf.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Carta al P. Jos\u00e9 Xifr\u00e9, 4 agosto 1866, en EC II, p. 1036<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE MOMENT<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
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The apostolic zeal of Claret saw him take advantage of any moment, however brief, to preach, counsel, write, etc. It is the evangelical \u2018urgency\u2019 of someone who feels fired up with the love of God and his brothers. There are those who always find excuses not to dedicate themselves or to delay their commitment. As the Greek philosopher Plato said, \u2018There is never a favourable wind for those who don\u2019t want to sail\u2019.
\nBut Claret is one of those who always want to sail, taking advantage of the slightest breeze that can move a sail. In August of 1857, having recently arrived in Madrid he wrote to a friend, \u2018I see a great and horrendous storm coming that will break within a year. I am taking advantage of every occasion; you will have already seen the regulations that have been passed, on my suggestion, against blasphemy, impurity, etc.\u2019 (EC II, p. 1396).
\nToday we sometimes meet with Christians, both laity, religious or priests, who lapse in their apostolic commitment because, \u2018It\u2019s not worth it, society is too secular, we are too few, we don\u2019t have vocations, I have to look after my health, I\u2019m not equipped, I don\u2019t know how to respond, in the end it doesn\u2019t get us anywhere, it\u2019s a waste of time.\u2019 In the meantime we are effectively losing time. Really what\u2019s lacking is apostolic zeal, missionary passion, if not, then death.
\nAm I able to risk my life for the good of others? Do I live my life as a gift that God makes in me for my brothers? Will I leave it because of laziness, because there are other things that stop me from giving everything that I could give?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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*179.- \u201cIt would be good to take advantage of the occasion to do missions, now that the Lord has granted these ceasefires. I don\u2019t know how long they will last. I will just say that from the outside they are looking for pretexts to fight. The same thing happened in the fable about the lamb […]<\/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-28910","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-7wi","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.claret.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28910","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=28910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.claret.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28910\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.claret.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.claret.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.claret.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}