A Eucharistic life in the school of saints
Clement was born on the feast of All Saints 24 years ago. He grew up in Annecy, France and had just completed an engineering school in Toulouse when he decided to follow a year of training at the School of Evangelization of the Emmanuel Community in Rome (1) . Clement's life was brief but eventful. It belonged to a group of young singers, to Scouting, at age 20 he founded an association to help the Hmong children in Laos (2) . He went there to help build a school. There he acquired a taste for travel, he dreamed of going to Asia on a bicycle with friends. But what was his secret? It is perhaps in this formula that he liked to tell his fiancee: "having one heart and one mind", yes, but "one heart and one soul Eucharist" - that is to say, given to God and others. Clement is a craftsman of unity and peace in his family and to his friends.
Clement grew up in the school of the saints, he had a special friendship for the Virgin Mary, Marcel Van of Vietnam, and Claude Frassati Colombière but as we know it is not we who choose the saints, they are the ones who choose us and teach us the path of holiness. "Scripture is the score and the Saints are the music" said Francois de Sales. Pier Giorgio Clement taught the message of Paul to the Philippians "one thing counts: Forgetting what is behind and started forward, I press toward the mark for the prize to which God calls us up there in Christ Jesus. Claude Clement Colombière put to school in the Heart of Jesus "learn from me that I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest." If you wish, go back on the lives of these two saints to discover how their friendship shaped spiritual Clement.
(1) Clement graduated with work from September 2007 to July 2008 on the development of a satellite in the company Thales, and will join Rome September 30, 2008.
(2) In fact in Thailand, but Clement is very marked by an incursion of a short week made Laotian territory in an area until recently forbidden.
Pier Giorgio is a young student committed Catholic who lived in Turin in Italy in the early twentieth century. "Her faith was simple and unwavering "Said one of his friends. Clement was pleased to show his fellow students that could be intelligent and Catholic. He chose to make the school of evangelization "to lower his head in his heart" as he put it, for the sake of the unity of his person. The thirst for God led Pier Giorgio to discover the night Eucharistic adoration, which was not common in his day. Clement enjoyed long periods of Eucharistic adoration each morning in Rome, on the eve of his departure, he took a long time to worship in the chapel. Pier Giorgio spent his free time with the poor, "his secret to winning the hearts and minds, it was charity without compromise," said one of his friends. " Clement was discreet and generous. One day in his childhood, is organizing a class for children from disadvantaged families. Clement gives his best toy he had just received from his parents, a beautiful gas pump! This year in Rome, he was with a heart for helping people homeless.
Pier Giorgio and Clement love the mountains, they go willingly with their friends. With students from the school of Rome, Clement participates in January to a weekend in the mountains, called "Pier Giorgio" and it is the top picture taken dressed as Pier Giorgio, pipe in mouth, stick in hand (see Facebook). The last evening of his life, he disguises himself as Pier Giorgio in a sketch the next day he made his last ascent to the Father and leaves us with 24 years as Pier Giorgio. His life was brief, it remains a mystery to us all, God's ways are inscrutable, but as her parents shared last night, "Clement has taken a step ahead of us." As Pier Giorgio, he could have said "the path chosen by the fair is the most difficult, but it is also the shortest, since it allows to go to heaven. " is the phrase you will find the back of the image that will be distributed at the end of the celebration. John Paul II said of Pier Giorgio's "life was short, but extremely rich spiritual fruit." We have the right to think even for Clement.
Claude Colombière was the spiritual director Margaret Mary to whom Christ appeared to Paray Le Monial in the seventeenth century to show men are heart burning with love for them. Strained in his ministry and the disease it is always remained in hope. "I found a great treasure he says, is a firm confidence in God based on His infinite goodness, in my experience it is missing the point in time of need." Clement was a man of great inner kindness, a gentleness that made him almost vulnerable in its relations with others, a disconcerting humility. Just after Christmas, during a retreat in Paray Le Monial, Clement came to pray at the tomb of Saint Claude to a few hundred meters from here. There, he felt compelled to go confess. This confession will be a meeting for him with the magnificent Christ which will fill with joy "the most beautiful of my life," he said. It shows the family and told his companions of the school of evangelization of Rome "I realized that we must renounce the pleasures because otherwise, we prevent the Lord to give us joy." Clement made a retreat called "gift of self" in January as part of the school, then he gives his whole life in the hands of God February 15 Feast of St. Claude. "The deed of trust" of the saint was on his bedside table. Probably, Clement had completed the course of its Eucharistic life.
Clement hand, but he does not leave us. Our pilgrimage on earth continues with Clement, but its mode of presence among us is changing and we need time to adapt. His presence has become a real visible presence real invisible. We gain a spiritual presence of Clement more universal and more intimate with each of us. We've got a powerful intercessor for nearest the Father. But it is true that we demand a detachment of his sensitive human presence is not without misunderstandings, pain and sometimes revolt. We will need patience, we support each other to live and put Christ at the heart of our daily life, this is where we find Clement.
Clement began his life on the feast of All Saints, he led his school life saints that make him a model of Eucharistic life and craftsman unit. During the Eucharist pray for him, and entrust our families and all youth to her intercession.
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