{"id":32286,"date":"2018-11-06T00:00:57","date_gmt":"2018-11-05T22:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.claret.org\/?p=32286"},"modified":"2018-11-06T00:01:05","modified_gmt":"2018-11-05T22:01:05","slug":"6-november","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.claret.org\/de\/6-november\/","title":{"rendered":"6 November"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cLove is the most necessary of all the virtues. Yes, I say it and will say it a thousand times: the virtue an apostolic missionary needs most of all is love. He must love God, Jesus Christ, the Blessed Virgin Mary, and his neighbours. If he lacks this love, all his talents, however fine in themselves, are for nothing. But if, together with his natural endowments, he has much love, he has everything\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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INDISPENSABLE VIRTUE<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
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It is said that there are people who \u201clive\u201d and people who \u201care lived\u201d; by who? by the people around them. There are people with passion and people who are dull of whom \u201cno one feels nor suffers\u201d mentally; it\u00b4s a desecration of the precious gift of life; this has to be sufficient to create enthusiasm \u201cto be passionate\u201d (=to create passion). The mere \u201clasting\u201d is not equivalent \u201cto live\u201d.
\nOne is \u201cpassionate\u201d when he experiences the motivation to get up every morning and begins to work, because there is something \u2013 or somebody- who is \u201cmuch more for me\u201d. Only in this way a person lives as a real human being and not as a machine, it is the person himself who decides and acts; he is not \u201ccarried away\u201d, but he goes.
\nThe words of Fr. Claret that motivate our reflection today are autobiographical: he lived it. His life in the world was not of a tormented person, but it was certainly a zealous and passionate one which spoke a lot about God and the brother and he lacked the time to serve both. In some retreats he makes a resolution of not losing a single minute; as the day was very short for him, he was stealing his time from resting hours to the extent of getting accustomed of not sleeping more than 3 or 4 hours every night.
\nThe only title Claret wanted for himself- he asked for it and got a it- was that of the \u201capostolic missionary\u201d, namely to be able to dedicate himself for the testimony of Jesus Christ in the style of the apostles. This was the fever that was burning within him continuously. When he speaks about love as the force that activated the natural qualities, he did not explain it as a theory, but spoke about himself. It seems there are some things that were unknown to him; such as, reluctance, boredom or lack of vitality. He believed always in providence, but this didn\u00b4t diminish his responsibility in using his own qualities strengthened always by love.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cLove is the most necessary of all the virtues. Yes, I say it and will say it a thousand times: the virtue an apostolic missionary needs most of all is love. He must love God, Jesus Christ, the Blessed Virgin Mary, and his neighbours. If he lacks this love, all his talents, however fine in […]<\/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-32286","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-8oK","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.claret.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32286","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=32286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.claret.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.claret.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.claret.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.claret.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}