{"id":32160,"date":"2018-10-24T00:00:33","date_gmt":"2018-10-23T22:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.claret.org\/?p=32160"},"modified":"2018-10-24T00:00:46","modified_gmt":"2018-10-23T22:00:46","slug":"24-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.claret.org\/de\/24-october\/","title":{"rendered":"24 October"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cIt seems that I have now fulfilled my mission. In Paris and Rome I have preached the law of God: in Paris as the capital of the world and in Rome as the capital of Catholicism; I have done it by word and in writing. I have observed holy poverty, I gave what were my dues and in the day, thanks to God, they gave me nothing, neither the Diocese of Cuba nor the Queen passed me anything.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Carta al D. Paladio Currius, 2 de octubre de 1869, en EC II, p. 1423<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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THE JOY OF THE FINISHING LINE<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
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Death of Claret.
\nIn October 1869, exactly a year before his death, Claret wrote from Rome, where he was to participate in the I Vatican Council, to his great collaborator, friend and confessor, D. Paladio Currius. He humbly recognised of being faithful to the mission he received, having given all; now, worn out and ill, he was preparing to exhale his last breath in peace. The Lord had granted him the fortune of working for the Gospel, at a level hardly imaginable, in Africa (Canary Islands), America (Cuba) and Europe in its then two most symbolic cities: Paris (capital of the empire) and Rome (capital of Christianity) He felt the joy that he was going to die poor and forgotten by the important ones of the earth: his tasks were others! It is impossible not to see in his words an echo to those of Paul to Timothy: \u2018 I am already poured out as a libation, and the moment of my departure has come. I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.\u2019 (2 Tim 4: 6-7). Claret also had very clear in his own heart these other words of the Apostle: \u2018None of us lives for himself, nor dies for himself. If we live, we live for the Lord, and if we die, we die for the Lord. Either in life or in death we belong to the Lord.\u2019 (Rom. 14:7-8).
\nOnly those who go out of their way, live life fully \u2018in action\u2019. It is one thing to live and another \u2018to be lived\u2019, carried on by what might happen, by others, without putting in the passion of consciousness. Those who have gone out of their way arrive finally at peace in the rest of the Lord, which was their aim.
\nAfter a life of trials and tribulations, the great mystic, St. John of the Cross sketched his ending thus: \u2018Let me be and forget me, \/ I recline my head on the Beloved, \/ he finished all and leave me, \/ leaving my care \/ between the forgotten flowers\u2019. He would rest serene in the consummation of what he hoped for, as another Claretian wrote: \u2018And I will arrive, by night, \/ with joyful fright \/ on seeing, at last, that I walked, day after day, over the same palm of Your hand \u2018 (Bp. Pedro Casaldaliga)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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