{"id":33485,"date":"2018-11-08T00:00:22","date_gmt":"2018-11-07T22:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.claret.org\/?p=33485"},"modified":"2018-11-08T00:00:25","modified_gmt":"2018-11-07T22:00:25","slug":"8-november","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.claret.org\/de\/8-november\/","title":{"rendered":"8 November"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cThere is no doubt that a child whose innocence has been preserved through good instruction is a treasure more precious in God’s eyes than all the kingdoms of this world\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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PRICELESS INNOCENCE<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
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The values quoted in today\u00b4s world have a lot do with success and rules of a competitive society. At the same time, we are also sensitive about freedom, justice, solidarity, etc. But in the surveys about values, innocence doesn\u00b4t usually appear. It sounds as an ideal that is impossible or childish in our \u201cadult\u201d, self sufficient, almost corrupt society. However, the innocence symbolized by children, reflects the truth that the world will have to be.
\nIn this sense, a child is always a reminder of a world lost or perhaps, of a world where God dreams or of a world to come. A Child is a treasure. Societies who control the birth-rate (let us think, for example, in the Chinese politics on \u201cone child\u201d) are preparing their own cemetery because they renounce the best of \u201cthe reserve of humanity\u201d that we have. Rabindranath Tagore said that each time a child is born, we realize that God has not forgotten our world. A world without children is too adult and does not know from where it comes and where it is going.
\nBut Claret points out that the child can preserve or lose its innocence according to the education it receives. It is a call for responsibility. Jesus strongly condemns those who pervert the innocence of a child, \u201cIf any of you should cause one of these little ones, who stumble and fall, it would be better for you to be thrown into the depths of the sea with a great millstone around your neck\u201d (Mt 18:6). Perversion is not reduced to \u201cthe sexual abuse of minors\u201d, that has damaged a lot and continues to do so in our time. Perhaps, there is another more delicate and damaging perversion that is, stealing the child\u00b4s innocence from which he places his confidence in God as Father and wants to live his life as a son who is worthy, free, safe and happy. A good education should help the child to consolidate and develop this experience.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cThere is no doubt that a child whose innocence has been preserved through good instruction is a treasure more precious in God’s eyes than all the kingdoms of this world\u201d Aut 276 PRICELESS INNOCENCE The values quoted in today\u00b4s world have a lot do with success and rules of a competitive society. At the same […]<\/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-33485","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-8I5","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.claret.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33485","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=33485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.claret.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.claret.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.claret.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.claret.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}