{"id":33476,"date":"2018-11-07T00:00:26","date_gmt":"2018-11-06T22:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.claret.org\/?p=33476"},"modified":"2018-11-07T00:00:38","modified_gmt":"2018-11-06T22:00:38","slug":"7-november","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.claret.org\/de\/7-november\/","title":{"rendered":"7 November"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cO my God, I give you my word that I shall do this: I shall preach, write, and circulate good books and pamphlets in abundance, so as to drown evil in a flood of good\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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DROWNING EVIL WITH GOOD<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
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The old manuals on asceticism taught everyone to seek his \u201cdominant passion\u201d, namely, the defect that hindered his spiritual progress. Once discovered, a well planned programme was set to fight against it. Thus someone who knew Claret closely affirmed that \u201chis dominant passion\u201d as preaching.
\nClaret was mainly a preacher. He founded his Congregation of the missionaries with an urgent need for popular missions and retreats. Only later on, they took up other ministries in relation to the service of the Word. We can\u00b4t imagine the number of sermons preached by Fr. Claret. In July, 1861, when he was travelling with the royal family, he wrote, \u201cMy greatest pain is to remain in this palace. It\u00b4s true that I preach always in the prisons, hospitals, care homes, schools, convents and towns; but I am not satisfied. I would like to run…..On the 15th we shall go to Santander where I expect to be fulfilled…….\u201d (EC II, p. 32). On this journey an unexpected thing took place, namely, when the train stopped in one station, Claret preached from the window to the people on the platform. When they returned on August, 16, he preached 11 sermons in Burgos.
\nAs the spoken word seemed little, Claret dedicated assiduously to write. Already in 1847, he founded an editorial, The Religious Publishing House, understood only as a means of apostolate. He published some 120 books; as he used to spend the day in preaching and hearing confessions, he wrote so many books \u201cstealing time from sleeping\u201d.
\nHow good it would be that many believers of today have a \u201cdominant passion\u201d that is well oriented and \u201cevangelically bright\u201d to show them the opportunity to introduce effectively the message of faith!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cO my God, I give you my word that I shall do this: I shall preach, write, and circulate good books and pamphlets in abundance, so as to drown evil in a flood of good\u201d Aut 453 DROWNING EVIL WITH GOOD The old manuals on asceticism taught everyone to seek his \u201cdominant passion\u201d, namely, the […]<\/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-33476","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-8HW","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.claret.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33476","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=33476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.claret.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.claret.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.claret.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.claret.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}