ANNUAL MEETING OF CESC AND THE GENERAL PREFECT OF SPIRITUALITY AND COMMUNITY LIFE From 5 to 9 December 2021, the first meeting of the new six-year period of the members of the CESC Team with the Prefect of Spirituality and Community Life was held in our community of Colmenar Viejo (Madrid, Spain). We attended the […]
XVIII PASTORAL ASSEMBLY 06-08 December 2021 Sasaima, Cundinamarca Rooted in Christ and audacious in mission, 87 of us: religious and lay Claretians gathered for the XVIII pastoral assembly, from 6 to 8 December 2021 in Sasaima Colombia. The greenness of the mountains, as well as the wild countryside’s smell became the natural setting that God […]
THE LOOM OF THE CLARETIAN FAMILY We come to the end of our encounter and we thank God for all that we have shared during these days. Before leaving for the General Curia of the Claretian Missionary Sisters to celebrate together the Eucharist of the Solemnity of Mary Immaculate and to have lunch together, at […]
THE LOOM OF THE CLARETIAN FAMILY December 7, 2021. We begin the day giving thanks to God for what we are weaving in this X World Encounter of the Claretian Family. It is God who sets the loom, who unites the colours, who moves the hands that weave, who keeps the light in the room, who […]
THE LOOM OF THE CLARETIAN FAMILY December 6, 2021. The encounter of the Claretian family continues and today we have visited the Claretian places in the Eternal City, that is, the places where Claret, Xifré and the primitive Claretian community -CMFF and RMI- were in Rome and other emblematic places. Accompanied by Fr. Vicente Sanz […]
Third Sunday of Advent – Year C What does a person ask of life, if not happiness? The Hebrew Bible employs something like twenty-seven synonyms to express feelings of joy. Nothing is more contrary to the Bible, then, than the religion of sorrow, of mourning, of the frowning faces that we sometimes see in […]
THE LOOM OF THE CLARETIAN FAMILY December 5, 2021 We began the second day of our encounter wishing to place life in the heart of God. We continue to be guided by the story “The Chance of Love”, written for the Claretian Family by Ángel Gómez. The Cordimarian Missionary Sisters have invited us to unite in […]
THE LOOM OF THE CLARETIAN FAMILY December 4th, 2021. We have begun the X World Encounter of the Claretian Family (CF) with the morning Eucharist in Rome. We celebrate with joy the presence of the eight branches that form it, and we thank God for the way in which He is weaving the threads of our history. […]
Zimbabwe, Zhomba. Yesterday, December 2, 2021, our brothers Nyasha Choga and Looklife Ndhlovu were ordained as priests in the chapel of Claret College in Chiutsi (Zhomba Mission). The ordaining minister, Mgr Rudolf Nyandoro, is the bishop of Gwave and apostolic administrator of Gokwe. The event was attended by the Provincial Superior, the Prefect of PJV and […]
Immaculate Conception of the blessed Virgin Mary (December 8) There is a way to present the figure of Mary that discourages instead of animating. She is referred to as the absolutely exceptional woman, exempted from original sin and its tragic consequences—and that’s not because of her own merit, but for a unique divine privilege—confirmed […]