{"id":29033,"date":"2018-09-30T00:00:50","date_gmt":"2018-09-29T22:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.claret.org\/?p=29033"},"modified":"2018-09-30T00:00:56","modified_gmt":"2018-09-29T22:00:56","slug":"30-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.claret.org\/de\/30-september\/","title":{"rendered":"30 September"},"content":{"rendered":"
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*299.- \u201cDoing and suffering are the greatest proofs of love.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Aut 424<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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THE GREAT PROOFS OF LOVE<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
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In a solemn declaration to his missionaries, Fr. Claret told them that they must be on fire with love; for this they would think only of \u2018how to imitate Jesus Christ in working and suffering (Aut 494). With these words he defines what has been his own life: a continuous \u2018putting himself out\u2019. A Spanish poet of the 19th century, who became very popular, said about his fellow countrymen: \u2018They taught me to pray, \/ they taught me to feel \/ and they taught me to love, \/ and, as to love is to suffer, \/ I also learnt to cry.\u2019 (JM Gabriel y Galan). A more recent poet wrote, \u2018I came with three injuries: one of death, one of love and one of life\u2019 (Miguel Hern\u00e1ndez).
\nHuman love is both a source of joy and pain at the same time. It is said that there are \u2018loves that kill\u2019. Pain is due sometimes to the absence of the person that is loved. In other cases it comes from a sense of misfortune. Claret had a very deep awareness to be able to see what was not worthy of the life of his brothers but rather what destroyed it. Above all he observed that many did not enjoy their position as children of God, perhaps they even rejected it, or rather, that other people did not respect their dignity.
\nHis response to such situations was through preaching, writing, starting charitable-social projects (as well as the usual practice of giving alms). Dedication to these tasks, in themselves sanctifying, are turned into a heavy cross when, instead of acknowledgement, give rise to persecution against those who carry them out. This was the case of Claret and many other saints.
\n\u2018At the evening of our life they will examine us on love\u2019, said St. John of the Cross. Let us not wait till the last, but at each evening we should examine ourselves as to how much we have loved, which perhaps is equal to saying what we have suffered.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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*299.- \u201cDoing and suffering are the greatest proofs of love.\u201d Aut 424 THE GREAT PROOFS OF LOVE In a solemn declaration to his missionaries, Fr. Claret told them that they must be on fire with love; for this they would think only of \u2018how to imitate Jesus Christ in working and suffering (Aut 494). With […]<\/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-29033","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-7yh","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.claret.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29033","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=29033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.claret.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29033\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.claret.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.claret.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.claret.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}