Celebrating the 175th anniversary of Claret’s missions in the Canary Islands has been an invitation to revitalise our vocation and renew our mission, making it more authentic and effective. What can we learn today from the way Claret was able to move the crowds and help them encounter God? It was said of him that “…it seemed as though he spoke from heart to heart…” Claret spoke to the heart because true evangelisation consists in showing God’s love to everyone, especially to those who do not feel loved. We need to listen to and understand the hearts of those who feel lonely or abandoned, who have emigrated to foreign lands, who are homeless or without family, who feel empty or lost… and also those who hate or reject us. In our weakness, we will only reflect God’s love by nurturing our spirituality as much as our missionary activity, so that our communion with Him may be complete, and we may say, like Claret: “It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me.”
Miguel Ángel Sosa
