{"id":33886,"date":"2018-11-17T00:00:58","date_gmt":"2018-11-16T22:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.claret.org\/?p=33886"},"modified":"2018-11-17T00:01:11","modified_gmt":"2018-11-16T22:01:11","slug":"17-november","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.claret.org\/de\/17-november\/","title":{"rendered":"17 November"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cTake my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble of heart and you will find rest. For my yoke is good and my burden is light\u201d (Mt 11, 29-30). He calls the moral doctrine he teaches as yoke and demands to fulfil it to understand the grace which he shows by his example to those who bear with its observance. Yoke is explained with two that join for a same work or nurturing and Jesus does not abandon, nor leaves alone the Christian who embraces his Moral, but he himself joins and helps him. He does not do like the scribes and pharisees who were placing on others heavy burdens and they don\u00b4t even move a finger to move them. On the other hand, Jesus takes on himself the yoke he imposes so that it may light for the one who takes it\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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El ferrocarril, Barcelona 1857, p. 76<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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YOU ARE NOT GOING ALONE<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
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The occasion was solemn, very solemn. The inaugural Eucharistic celebration of the second Synodal Assembly dedicated to Europe (1999) was being held in the Vatican basilica. In the first synod of 1991, the fall of the Berlin wall was a recent event and there was a lot of transformation in the Eastern Europe; in the second synod, there were other experiences; the whole world was more prepared to speak and listen.
\nThe basilica was overflowing. John Paul II gave an unforgettable homily. Some statements are still exiting, \u201cJesus Christ is living in his Church and, from generation to generation, he continues to „draw near“ to man and to „walk“ with him.\u201d, he affirmed commenting on the narrative of the disciples of Emmaus. \u201cHe\u201d, the Pope continued saying, \u201cthe Emmanuel, God-with-us, was crucified in the concentration camps and the gulags; he knew affliction under bombardment in the trenches; he suffered wherever the inalienable dignity of man, of every human being, was humiliated, oppressed and violated\u201d.
\nThe statement deserves to be engraved on the gates of Auschwitz and Mauthausen, and also in many unknown soviet camps of huts, industrial complexes and green-houses in which hundreds of immigrants were crammed, of elegant massage parlours in which girls are deceived with the European dream by selling their bodies or weeping over their recent abortion. The Risen Christ never fails us. Claret reminds it with precious words; \u201che himself helps and yokes us\u201d. And we were associating the yoke with heaviness, loneliness, sacrifice! What a blessed yoke that unites us to the Crucified Lord!
\nDo you truly believe Christ never fails us? Are you convinced that he draws near to us even when life seems to smile at us very little? Do you allow him to accompany you?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cTake my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble of heart and you will find rest. For my yoke is good and my burden is light\u201d (Mt 11, 29-30). He calls the moral doctrine he teaches as yoke and demands to fulfil it to understand the grace which he […]<\/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-33886","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-8Oy","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.claret.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33886","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=33886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.claret.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33886\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.claret.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.claret.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.claret.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}