“My God and my Father, may I know you and make you known; love you and make you loved; serve you and make you served; praise you and make all creatures praise you.” (Auto. N 233). How deep this word inspires us to continually carry out our mission.Our founder Anthony Claret proclaims the Good News with faithfulness established a good example for us. As a child he felt the call to be the witness of God. He used to go to Church to attend the Celebration of the Holy Eucharist with his father and keep reading some stories of Saint. Mary is his beloved Mother to be his best example to emulate in his life. In 1826, Saint was in Barcelona accidentally fall down in sea. He cried out Mother Mary’s name, and then he was miraculously saved from the danger of death. Saint kept the warmth of piety and devotion reciting the Rosary wherever he goes with the intention peace, justice, and with the solidarity in ecumenical church. A spiritual heart was enkindled in the light of the Holy Spirit.
Time past, on June 8, 1885, our founder St. Anthony Mary Claret overcome all the difficulties eventually he was ordained a priest as well as a servant of God delightedly and passionately works inside of the garden of the Lord. Oftentimes he felt the impetus of fulfilling the mission the Lord has entrusted to him, “The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few; therefore ask the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest.” (Mt 9:37-38)
In 1848, it was a remarkable day that “the Congregation Sons of the Immaculate Heart of Mary” was born through the prayer and providence of God, the same year our founder was inaugurated as an archbishop in Vich. He endured a lot of trails and hardships to work in Cuba especially due to the state of slavery, people suffer discrimination, injustice and poverty etc. Saint tried to build schools, hospitals and orphanages in order to response the need of people in Cuba.
The virtue of obedience, poverty, humility, prudence, self-control, and kindness embody our founder Claret as a real missionary to continually carry out the mission in order to fulfill his apostolic vocation. Timely, urgently and effectively would be always the motto of our Founder.
Today it is a special day for all of our members to celebrate the 2nd Bicentennial. As a son of Immaculate Heart of Mary, our founder’s words and act will be our reminder and example for us to follow and emulate that we ought to be good as well as our founder working inside of the garden of the Lord to reap the fruit.
Up to now, over the world our members are around 3000 plus spreading in different continents. “The Congregation Sons of the Immaculate Heart of Mary” is called to follow footstep of our founder Saint Anthony Mary Claret to evangelize and bring the love of God widespread. Just as our General Superior Fr. Josep Maria Abella, CMF in his Circular Letter “From Remembrance to commitment” addresses that the world has changed, and so has the Church. We are invited to re-read our Founder’s life with the hope, love and inspiration to be able live today with the same spiritual density and missionary dynamism that he lived.
Today the message to us just as Fr. Josep Maria Abella said “your Word of life, were at the service of the Word of life, because you realized that what people need were not words but the Word of life, which opens hearts to experience the Father’s love and strengthen their commitment to Christ and the values, implied in following him.
The passion of Christ of our Founder encourages us to go beyond our missionary territory, trace the goal of building the kingdom of God.
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