Anton Mª Vilarrubias Codina, CMF.

A. Mª Vilarrubias, cmf

I was born on September 26, 1939 in Igualada, a town in the Province of Barcelona. My parents lived their traditional Christian faith with conviction and exemplarity.

We are five siblings, I am the third. The second child of the family is Fr. Josep Vilarrubias cmf, a member of the Claretian Community of Lleida, Claretian province of Catalonia.

Our father had a cousin who was a Claretian missionary, Fr. Salvador Vilarrubias cmf. During the Spanish Civil War, from 1936-39, he managed to flee to Chile where he was a popular preacher. (more…)

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Claret: fire makes fire

Pilar Pérez, fc.

Short autobiography:

My name is Pilar Pérez Bernal, although all my friends call me Pily.

I was born in Madrid 44 years ago. I studied in the school that the Conceptionist Missionaries of the Teaching have in Princesa street and at 18 I joined the novitiate of this congregation. (more…)

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Claret: passion, creativity and strategy

Màxim Muñoz, cmf.

I was born in southwest Spain (Extremadura) and when I was 7 years old I migrated with my family to the northeast (Catalunya). At the age of 10, my parents “placed” me in the minor seminary that the Claretians had in Sant Boi de Llobregat (25 km from Barcelona). They possibly asked me about it, but I do not remember it. It was suggested by the Claretian parish priest, Fr. Carles Masó, who marked my first steps as a seminarian for his simplicity, personal coherence, spiritual depth and great spirit of service to so many emigrated families with serious problems of work, housing, education, adaptation to the new context. (more…)

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My Experience of Claret

S. G. Agualada Jr., cmf.

The first time I heard about St. Anthony Mary Claret and about the Claretians was in 1985 when I was in my 4th year high school at the Ateneo de Naga, a school run by the Jesuits. I was barely 16 years old then. It was a few weeks before September when the entire batch of senior students was preparing for a civic-military parade competition as part of Naga City’s almost month-long celebration of the Feast of Our Lady of Peñafrancia, the Patroness of the Bicol Region in the Philippines. (more…)

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My personal experience

Jesús Mª Palacios, cmf.

The personal experience I have of St. Anthony M. Claret is very difficult to explain like any religious experience. It includes memories, affections and feelings, emotions of all kinds, intellectual valuations, life effective commitments around the great figure of Claret, his spirituality and his work as an apostle, missionary and founder.

Before the question about what does Claret mean in your life? It is hard to make a synthesis of all the vital elements. Even knowing the existing limits I am going to try to do it in its most relevant and dynamic features. (more…)

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Claret in my Missionary Journey

Leo Dalmao, cmf.

Initial Encounter with a Missionary

The first time I heard about the Claretians was during their vocation promotion.  I was fourth year high school then, and what attracted me to their congregation was the missionary presence of the Claretians in frontier missions, “in places where others don’t dare to go.”  I was also drawn to the idea that every person regardless of his gift has a place in this missionary congregation to serve God and his people. (more…)

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Following Christ Accompanied by Claret

Samuel H. Canilang, cmf.

Missionary discipleship is an on-going formative journey – an inner journey of spiritual and charismatic growth while actually doing mission, fulfilling an ordained ministry or engaging in various pastoral and evangelizing activities. In my personal experience of this journey, I have been constantly accompanied in spirit by St. Anthony Mary Claret. His witness of evangelical and missionary life and his teachings about the Christian faith and spirituality – as preserved in his Autobiography – are my constant source of inspiration and encouragement. (more…)

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My experience with Father Claret

Jesu Doss Sathanandam, cmf.

When I write my experience with Father Claret, many persons come across my mind. Because it is through them I know our beloved Founder. Therefore my testimony is mingled with the emotions of gratitude. My experience with St. Antony Mary Claret began in 1978 at the age of 16, when I joined the postulancy in Karumathur, India. I had my schooling in the Jesuit school where I learnt more about the Jesuit saints. Father Claret was new to my knowledge until I entered in our formation house. (more…)

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My Encounter with Claret

Alberto Rossa, cmf.

It was the year 1951. My six-month-old brother had swallowed a small metal cross with 8 tips, a wick holder for the oil lamp used at night. The doctors had given up hope on him. They gave him back to my mother to die at home because there was no way a baby could excrete that metal without it cutting its intestines. My mother, feeling desolate, embarked on a journey back to the village. A woman approached her on the train when she saw her crying. My mother told her the terrible drama. (more…)

My Encounter with Claret2021-12-19T15:09:32+01:00

Godd’s search and his will…

Joseba Kamiruaga Mieza, cmf.

“Set your heart first on the kingdom and justice of God and all these things will also be given to you”(Matthew 6:33).

 “Passions make man live, wisdom only makes him last” (Chamfort).

 “If passion, if madness did not ever pass through souls … What would life be worth?” (Jacinto Benavente) (more…)

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