{"id":33561,"date":"2018-11-13T00:00:08","date_gmt":"2018-11-12T22:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.claret.org\/?p=33561"},"modified":"2018-11-13T00:00:15","modified_gmt":"2018-11-12T22:00:15","slug":"13-november","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.claret.org\/de\/13-november\/","title":{"rendered":"13 November"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cMy parents, whose names were John Claret and Josephine Clara, were married, upright, and God-fearing people, very devoted to the Blessed Sacrament and Mary Most Holy\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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THE PARENTS, OUR GIFTS<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
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When speaking of his parents, Fr. Claret does not begin by presenting us with their fortune, their age, etc, but their identity as believers. In a way, he is speaking about himself, his nurturing which explains his way of being; he mentions just three traits about his parents who constitute the experience lived and learnt from them. He experienced the affection of his parents who sacrificed themselves for him and for his brothers and sisters. That is why he says, \u201cI had very good parents\u201d (Auto. 25) and addresses them as \u201cmy beloved parents\u201d (Auto. 229) and \u201cmy loving father\u201d (Auto. 36). He remembered them affectionately all through his life recognizing that their role in his understanding on the truth and his heart in practicing the religion and other virtues (Auto. 25.28).
\nThey taught him to earn the daily bread by the sweat of his brow (\u201cupright\u201d) by putting him to work in the family textile workshop. In Barcelona he will learn to combine work and study and so, later on, he will explain love in terms of working and suffering. He was transparent and sincere in respecting others\u00b4 belongings. Obedience and availability lead him to seek the will of God and fulfil it in the important moments of his life (\u201cthey were God-fearing\u201d). His Eucharistic devotion would reach its culmination of the mystical experience of being a living tabernacle by carrying day and night the Eucharistic presence in his inner self. His parents\u00b4 devotion to \u201cMary most holy\u201d left in Anthony a special awareness; by this his whole life will be covered by \u201cmarianism\u201d and Mary will be \u201chis all after Jesus\u201d (Auto. 5).
\nThe seeds his parents sowed in his childhood are converted into an extraordinary living experience in his future as a mature man.
\nWhat do I value most as the spiritual and moral heritage I have received from my parents? Does it remain present in me, perhaps transformed, strengthened and more consolidated? Or have I abandoned it?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cMy parents, whose names were John Claret and Josephine Clara, were married, upright, and God-fearing people, very devoted to the Blessed Sacrament and Mary Most Holy\u201d Aut 2 THE PARENTS, OUR GIFTS When speaking of his parents, Fr. Claret does not begin by presenting us with their fortune, their age, etc, but their identity as […]<\/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-33561","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-8Jj","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.claret.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33561","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=33561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.claret.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.claret.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.claret.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.claret.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}