{"id":33539,"date":"2018-11-12T00:00:22","date_gmt":"2018-11-11T22:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.claret.org\/?p=33539"},"modified":"2018-11-12T00:00:33","modified_gmt":"2018-11-11T22:00:33","slug":"12-november","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.claret.org\/de\/12-november\/","title":{"rendered":"12 November"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cThoroughly convinced that to be a good missionary it is both useful and essential to have love. I have searched for this hidden treasure and would sell everything in order to find it\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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LOVE, A HIDDEN TREASURE<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
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Among the parables of Jesus are the very brief ones of the treasure hidden in the field and the precious pearls found by a businessman. The experts in Bible say that the most important expression of these parables is an almost marginal note, \u201cfull of joy for finding\u201d. Claret perceived the incomparable value of love; it was a great treasure for him. In fact, it does not go beyond the expression of the Song of Songs which says, \u201cIf a man were to buy love with all the wealth of his house, contempt is all he would purchase\u201d (Song 8:7). Placing love and dirty money on the same level of a balance would be a deplorable profanation of love.
\nThe question rising in us is, whether love can be \u201cprovoked\u201d, whether it can be \u201cattained\u201d, whether we are the masters of this attitude of mind or rather, it is this attitude that possesses us. If we ask engaged couples for the reason of their mutual attraction, they would probably respond that they don\u00b4t know who is the actor or the \u201cvictim\u201d in love. But this is the \u201csentimental\u201d love, sometimes it is also erotic, which is very different from \u201cthe oblative\u201d (= \u201cof offering\u201d), namely, the disposition to give life, to go beyond a natural sympathy or pleasure (it can even be a nest of a hidden egoism).
\nThe oblative love is referred to by Claret and is strengthened by it even to enumerate various means to attain it. But this love makes him also sensitive, loving and tender, \u201cI love them so much with a love that drives me crazy….\u201d, he tells his missionaries (EC II, p. 352). This transformation of the heart grows in him- as he points out in his spiritual diary on 12th October, 1869 \u2013 to this sublime point, \u201cAt 10:30 a.m , the Lord granted me the love for my enemies.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cThoroughly convinced that to be a good missionary it is both useful and essential to have love. I have searched for this hidden treasure and would sell everything in order to find it\u201d Aut 442 LOVE, A HIDDEN TREASURE Among the parables of Jesus are the very brief ones of the treasure hidden in 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-33539","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-8IX","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.claret.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33539","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=33539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.claret.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.claret.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.claret.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.claret.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}