{"id":33854,"date":"2018-11-14T00:00:25","date_gmt":"2018-11-13T22:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.claret.org\/?p=33854"},"modified":"2018-11-14T00:00:33","modified_gmt":"2018-11-13T22:00:33","slug":"14-november","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.claret.org\/de\/14-november\/","title":{"rendered":"14 November"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cMy neighbour, I love and cherish you for a thousand reasons<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Aut 448<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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LOVE FOR MY BROTHER AND SISTERS<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
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When we look at others, we can do it with \u201cdark glasses\u201d or with \u201ctransfiguring glasses\u201d; these latter ones are used by God. According to Genesis 1:31, \u201cGod saw all that he had made, and it was very good\u201d; and the poetic theologian, St. John of the Cross says that God beautified what he saw, \u201cHe passed through the groves in haste\/ And merely regarding them\/ As He passedClothed them with His beauty\u201d (Spiritual Canticle); that is why a creature who is ugly in the beginning, says to the creator, \u201cYou can regard me now\/ Since You have regarded me\/ Grace and beauty have You given me\u201d (ib.). This should be our style of looking and avoiding \u201cinadequate glasses\u201d that would project towards others the ugliness that could nest in our heart.
\nClaret looked at his brothers with \u201cthe eyes\u00b4 of God\u201d, and so he says, \u201cI love you because you are created by God, in his image and for heaven. I love you because you are redeemed by the blood of Christ\u201d (Auto. 448). Some years ago there was a famous song in Spain. It ran as follows, \u201cWhat does it matter for us, all these people look at the earth and see nothing more than earth?\u201d. Effectively to see, it is almost better not to have eyes. We have to look beyond.
\nA Christian is called to look simultaneously at things and through them: their origin and meaning. When a mother looks at her son, she does not observe whether he is less graceful perhaps or has any physical defects; but she goes beyond all these and says, \u201cIt is my son!\u201d For her the child is of great value.
\nThe love of neighbour that Claret insisted on so much cannot be reduced to a sterile satisfaction. He gets immediately the consequence, \u201cas proof for my love for him, I shall do and suffer all pains and works\u201d. There is a saying, \u201cworks are love\u201d, that\u00b4s why Claret added at once to his \u201cdeclaration of love\u201d, his willingness, \u201cto undergo any work or pain for your sake\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cMy neighbour, I love and cherish you for a thousand reasons Aut 448 LOVE FOR MY BROTHER AND SISTERS When we look at others, we can do it with \u201cdark glasses\u201d or with \u201ctransfiguring glasses\u201d; these latter ones are used by God. According to Genesis 1:31, \u201cGod saw all that he had made, and it […]<\/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-33854","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-8O2","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.claret.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33854","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=33854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.claret.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33854\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.claret.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.claret.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.claret.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}