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The apostolic prayer

This is a prayer widely used by Saint Anthony Mary Claret and that he himself includes in his Autobiography. With some slight variations from the original, it sounds like this:

“My Lord and Father,

may I know you and make you known

may I love you and make you loved

may I serve you and make you served

may I praise you and make you praised

by all creatures. Amen”.

Claret adds more elements, but the essence is reduced to the set of the four verbs applied to God: know, love, serve and praise. With the initials of each of them, in Spanish, the word “casa” (house) is formed (conocer, amar, servir y alabar) It is a simple way to remember that Claret – like Jesus – dreamed of being in the Father’s house to devout himself to His affairs and not to his own interests or tastes. (more…)

2nd Meeting of archivists

During the morning of Friday, March 15, the archivists of Osona had the opportunity to meet for the second time. The attendants were: Rafel Ginebra (ABEV), Angelina Verdaguer (Arxiu Comarcal Osona), Empar Costa (Arxiu Municipal de Vic), Gisela Rial (Arxiu Municipal de Manlleu), Gemma Carretero (Arxiu Municipal de Torelló), Albert Aragay, Núria Pou and Melody Miranda (SGDAiR Universitat de Vic-UCC), Carme Baqué (GDiA Consorci Hospitalari de Vic-SAS), Núria Matute (Arxiu de Justicia de Vic), Dolors Bernal (Arxiu Municipal de Centelles), Luciana Farfalla (Arxiu del P. Coll de Vic) and Ricard Oliva and Juan Carlos Martos (Arxiu Claret-CESC of Vic)

The meeting began at 10 in the morning at the CESC premises in Vic. And we went through the agenda set in advance. After the greetings and introduction of the attendees, especially the new archivists; we went on to presentation of recent and important works by the respective Archives. A good amount of time was spent providing detailed information about the work and the peculiar characteristics of the CESC in its three dimensions of research, animation and dissemination of the personality, works and writings of Saint Anthony Mary Claret and the Claretian Family. We stopped in particular to show the website of the Centre. (more…)

Obispos de Canarias y Rubicón

CAZORLA LEÓN Santiago – SÁNCHEZ RODRÍGUEZ Julio, Obispos de Canarias y Rubicón, Eypasa Ed., Madrid 1997, 576 pp.

It is a monumental and exhaustive work, “carefully and admirably crafted” (p. 7), on this specific topic. From the first bishop, Alfonso de San Lúcar de Barrameda (1404-1417) to Ramón Echarren Ysturiz (1978-), with which the volume closes. In total 67 pastors; 43 of which came from the secular clergy and 24 from the religious clergy. (more…)

No viví yo

“El que de veras ama a Jesús, más vive en Jesús que en sí mismos,…” (Notas Espirituales)

(Claret)

Te vi, Jesús, de afectos tan movido,
te oí en tus palabras tan hablado,
te hallé de tus caminos tan cansado,
te sentí por los odios tan herido,

que viví en tus fuegos encendido,
quedé de tu palabra enamorado,
me dejaron tus sueños desvelado,
mehicierontusurgenciastanurgido.

En tus pies trajinaban mis fatigas,
tus manos bendecían en mis manos,
tu corazon sangraba en mis heridas.

Ya no fuimos dos almas sólo amigas,
ni sólo dos espíritus hermanos:
una vida vivieron nuestras vidas.

Jesús Aramendía, cmf.

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March 28

“One of the means that experience has taught me to be more powerful for good, is the press, the same way that firearm is more powerful for bad when it is used abusively”

(Aut 310).

TO BE LIGHT OF THE WORLD TODAY

In the epoch of Claret the press in Spain was at its heyday; the XIX century made it possible that the masses stopped being analphabets and had access to reading. It was one of these epochs of “threshold”, that is, when the limit is surpassed and you get to a higher level.  In this case, it was the overcoming of the threshold that maintained the people in a serious cultural limitation. (more…)

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Episode 2. The second episode titled “Nourishing the Fire” addresses aspects of the pre-founding and founding events of the Congregation helping the listener reflect on the importance of nourishing the fire of faith and vocation. Within the framework of the 175th anniversary of the foundation, our General Government in association with the CESC publishes different episodes explaining our history. You can access them in this Videos section of the Congregation’s website  ( https://www.claret.org/audio-visual/ ).

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