New digitized work: Marian Writings of Claret
Following with our digitization work, this December we are offering you a new book of high importance for the knowledge of the figure of Claret:
SAN ANTONIO MARIA CLARET ESCRITOS MARIANOS (Marian Writings)
Edition prepared by Jesús BERMEJO, CMF
Preliminary study by José María VIÑAS, CMF
Presentation by Gustavo ALONSO, CMF Superior General
CLARETIAN PUBLICATIONS MADRID 1989 (more…)
Presentation of a fundamental book about Claret, in Vic
On November 27, 2019, at 7:30 p.m., the presentation of the book “Las misiones populares del Padre Claret en Cataluña entre 1840 y 1850. Un camino de evangelización en tiempos de crisis” (“The popular missions of Father Claret in Catalonia between 1840 and 1850. An evangelisation path in times of crisis”) took place”; it has been published by Claret Publishing Co., Barcelona 2019, 477 pp.
It is actually the result of the Doctoral Thesis defended by Fr. Carlos Sánchez Miranda, cmf, at the Pontificia Universidad Comillas of Madrid (Spain). It is also the first volume of the “Urget” collection, which will offer studies on the figure of Saint Anthony Mary Claret (1807-1870), his life, mission, text and context.
A film about Claret
For years the Claretian Missionaries and other groups of the Claretian Family had been thinking about making a film about Saint Anthony Mary Claret. His life has all the necessary features to make it attractive and “edifying”, if this last adjective can still be used at a time when only the “villains” seem to enjoys good press. Perhaps the complexity of the character, the variety of settings in which he moved (Catalonia, Canary Islands, Cuba, Madrid, a number of places in Spain, Lisbon, Paris, Rome, Fontfroide) and, above all, the high costs involved in making a film ended up discouraging us. But everything began to change in the wake of the film “A forbidden God,” which tells the story of the Claretian martyrs of Barbastro. The good acceptance on the part of many people – not always on the part of a certain review that tends to disregard everything related to the Church – encouraged us to embark on the adventure (more…)
My encounter with Father Claret
The first love letter I received from Father Claret was delivered to me through his autobiography, number 33, as he describes his attitude to the weakly, as follows:“Whenever we had to correct anyone, it upset me a great deal; yet I did my duty. I always tried to find something good to say about the piece of finished work. I would praise its good points, saying that this or that about it was very good but that it had such and such a defect and if these little defects were corrected, it would really be a perfect job.” (more…)
December 10
“What moved and stimulated me most was reading the Holy Bible, to which I have always been very strongly attracted” (Auto. 113).
EFFICACY OF THE WORD
If we value this declaration of Claret according to the present use of the Bible in the Church, it his attraction for the Bible will look to be good but not extraordinary, since in our days, there is a lot of affection to read and meditate the Bible. But in the Catholic Church of the time of Claret, the Bible was not very much appreciated, or read and it was not even the important part of the priests and religious. Claret was fortunate to have this attraction already as a young seminarian in Vic through the bishop Mons. (more…)
Fr. Josep Rovira, cmf, member of the CESC, explains how young Anthony Claret lived situations that led him to rethink the meaning of his life and give a radical vocational response. We pray that the celebration of World Youth Day may become an opportunity for many young people to deepen their experience of encountering Christ and dare to follow and announce him.
