Fr. Juan Corominas, 91, a Claretian Missionary for over 60 years was born into eternal life on April 26, 2012 at Santa Teresita’s Manor in Duarte, California. Funeral Mass and Burial took place Tuesday, May 1, 2012 at San Gabriel Mission, San Gabriel, CA. (Read more...)
FATHER ALOYSIUS ELLACURIA MEMORIAL MASS
The 31th Annual Memorial Mass for Father Aloysius Ellacuria, C.M.F. will be held at his grave site at the Old Mission in San Gabriel, San Gabriel, California, Saturday, April 14, 2012 at 10:00am . For further information please contact us at: 626-443-2009.
FATHER ISIDORO GARCIA, CMF (1930-2011)
Fr. Isidoro Garcia, CMF, 81, died peacefully at Santa Teresita Manor in Duarte, CA on October 27, 2011. Funeral Mass and Burial took place October 31, 2011 at Dominguez Seminary in Rancho Dominguez, CA.
CLARETIANS ELECT NEW USA PROVINCIAL AND COUNCIL
Claretian Missionaries held their first USA Provincial Chapter during the third week of August in Chicago. The USA province was born on February 2, 2011 during an assembly of 80 Claretian Missionaries serving in the United States. The new province is the fruit of efforts of Claretian Missionaries who arrived in this country from Spain and Mexico in 1902. The missionaries served Mexican immigrants in San Antonio, Los Angeles, and Chicago, Illinois. (click here to read more...)
Funeral Mass and Burial took place Thursday, February 11, 2010 at San Gabriel Mission, San Gabriel, CA, for Father Edward Widmer, CMF , 87, a Claretian Missionary for 70 years, who died after several months of declining health on February 11, 2010 in San Gabriel, CA. (read more...)
HAITI EARTHQUAKE RELIEF
In light of the recent events in Haiti, I would like us all to join together to support our Claretian brothers, families and friends who are suffering in the aftermath of the devastation the earthquake caused. Our Province will be sending financial assistance to our brothers in Haiti in response to the current situation. If you or anyone you may know, would like to make a donation to the Haiti earthquake relief fund, please send your donations to the Claretian Provincial Office at 10203 Lower Azusa Road, Temple City, CA 91780 ; we will take care of sending all the funds to the relief effort in Haiti. Please keep our Claretian brothers in Haiti, their family, friends, and the Haitian people in your prayers during these difficult times. Please click here for further updates on the Haiti Earthquake Relief effort.
Joint Assembly of the US Eastern and Western Provinces, Sierra Madre, CA
"Rekindling our Fire in the USA"
Please keep all the Claretian Missionaries from the Eastern and Western Provinces in your prayers; They will gather for a week long Assembly, January 4-8, 2010, to further discuss, reflect, and pray for the unification of the U.S. Provinces.
From
his birth, he was fascinated
with the mystery of Christ.
He was so taken with his presence
in the Eucharist that for the
last nine years of his life
the two of them became one flesh,
and burned with the same zeal
for lost souls, and the same
love for the human race.
When
St. Anthony was born two hundred
years ago, the day before Christmas
Eve, a marvelous intimacy with
the Word-Made-Flesh, that finally
bore great fruit in his life
and endures until today in those
touched by his spirit of devotion
and zeal for souls, took hold
of him.
As
a small boy, he spent hours
before the Blessed Sacrament
in the church of his native
town and, in the end, they became
one flesh in the miracle that
preserved the sacred species
in his heart from one communion
to the next for the last nine
years of his life.
The
nineteenth and twentieth centuries,
with their endless war and turmoil,
are over and done with. The
21 st century looms. Claret
survived modern industrialization
and its push towards political
and intellectual independence.
Our world edges toward globalization,
pluralism, and postmodern secularism.
Claret
was born to evangelize the corridors
of the Spanish Empire in which
he moved.
We
are called to evangelize the
imperial highways of our own
day. His century was bent on
warfare. Our own war-torn age
is hungry for justice and peace.
The
dynamic of our task is one of
discipleship and mission. Like
Claret, we must learn to feel
God’s passion and action in
our time from Jesus. Once we
catch fire, it drives us to
bring others into the same mystery:
“to know you and make you known,
love you and make you loved,
serve you and make you served,”
as Claret put it.
This
drive to evangelize is born
out of a deep sense of prayer
rooted in the fact that as a
boy he would spend a large amount
of his free time in prayer in
the presence of Jesus whose
presence was so deeply internalized
that he was able to live in
deep mystical union with the
Blessed Sacrament for the last
nine years of his life.
When
we embrace God where he has
put us by birth and migration,
and learn to cherish the heritage
of faith provided by our family
of birth, once we have come
to know ourselves fully through
personal choices, and the One
who creates us through spiritual
conversion, then we will be
compelled to take the truth
and beauty of this way of being,
and share it with others, who
may or may not have discovered
the presence of God in their
own lives.
Claret’s
voice spoke a WORD his listeners
already knew, and immediately
recognized. His preaching brought
people together for a common
task, and called them back to
the brotherhood and human community
that they had forgotten.
