MAS CLARET
The new polyvalent room
Presentation of the new polyvalent room and of de the chapel at the old motor and mine shed.
The polivalent room
- Reception room open to reflection and prayer gatherings
- provided with necessary services- recovered from the working and prayer days of youths and other friends. In the "shed" there was the water mine and the motor that drove it to Mas Claret as well as moving the mill during the reaping days. Mas Claret was residence for ill Missionaries and the granary for the Claretian Seminary of the old University of Cervera: a community clerics looked after the site and the farm motivated by its collaboration in their formation as missionaries. The new ChapelSymbolism of the stainder glass: Martyrdom - Easter Mistery
The higher part is dominated by a dark and heavy sky: theses martyrs were men like us, they were afraid, anxious and suffered the agony of all they sacrificed with their death: family, their brihht future, their own life.
The cross at the bottom and the bright reds: poured their blood, sharing with Christ the of the Father. The central anagram, the blues and splendorous white: wwith Christ they also share neverending life and transmit the joyous and handcrafted by Ma. Josepa Domingo, is placed in the gap occupied formerly by the lead that joined the motor with the mill.
Message of the relief: Christ with the two disciples at Emaus.
Father Leache, who did not refuse to celebrate mass despite foreseeing his own death, said:
"To die for celebrating mas and for being religious, that is martyrdom".He celebrated clandestine masses froom the 10th of september "in the shed where the motor was, together with the young Elisalde and G. Bagaria" rom the book Misioneros M�rtires, 1942). This act of Breaking the Bread in the place, living beforehand his meeting with Christ, is what has inspired the fact that the Emaus scene should preside all the gatherings between disciples of today and tomorrow.
Each gathering in this place relieves also our Emaus.
This terracotta relief, made by P. Josep Vilarrubias, has captured the livelyness of Christ's face that
- strengthens hearts and spirits of the two disciples, sunken moments before;- banishes the darness of misunderstandings of the Master;- unites joyius disciples and moves them to spread the god news. Luk, chap 24, 13-35.13 And, behold, two of them went that same day to a village called Emmaus, which was from Jerusalem about threescore furlongs.14 And they talked together of all these things which had happened.15 And it came to pass, that, while they communed together and reasoned, Jesus himself drew near, and went with them.16 But their eyes were holden that they should not know him.17 And he said unto them, What manner of communications are these that ye have one to another, as ye walk, and are sad?18 And the one of them, whose name was Cleopas, answering said unto him, Art thou only a stranger in Jerusalem, and hast not known the things which are come to pass there in these days?19 And he said unto them, What things? And they said unto him, Concerning Jesus of Nazareth, which was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people:
20 And how the chief priests and our rulers delivered him to be condemned to death, and have crucified him.21 But we trusted that it had been he which should have redeemed Israel: and beside all this, to day is the third day since these things were done.22 Yea, and certain women also of our company made us astonished, which were early at the sepulchre; 23 And when they found not his body, they came, saying, that they had also seen a vision of angels, which said that he was alive.24 And certain of them which were with us went to the sepulchre, and found it even so as the women had said: but him they saw not.25 Then he said unto them, O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken:26 Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into his glory?27 And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself.28 And they drew nigh unto the village, whither they went: and he made as though he would have gone further.29 But they constrained him, saying, Abide with us: for it is toward evening, and the day is far spent. And he went in to tarry with them.30 And it came to pass, as he sat at meat with them, he took bread, and blessed it, and brake, and gave to them.31 And their eyes were opened, and they knew him; and he vanished out of their sight.32 And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the scriptures?33 And they rose up the same hour, and returned to Jerusalem, and found the eleven gathered together, and them that were with them,34 Saying, The Lord is risen indeed, and hath appeared to Simon.35 And they told what things were done in the way, and how he was known of them in breaking of bread.
It is that gathering of the eleven and those that werewith them that we are continuing
- The evangelical paragraph of Saint Luke, chap 23, invites us to discuss and to share our confusions and our low morale as well as our confortable Emaus meetings because "he really has returned".It invites us to consider the diferents gatherings of Jesus, always fortunate: with each of this disciples, the sick, children, Lazarus, the centurions, Mary Magdalene, Martha and Maria, Emaus? disciples...- Theologists and thinkers have warned us of the fact that in the pas, the imagery of Jesus in temples tends much more to show his death rather than his life. This wasn't so during the Romanesque period when the Glorious Christ showed the Scriptures.- His death and burial are a fact, as the sacrifice and theath of so many missionaries and beleivers is also a fact, but Emaus in this martyrial space shares with us the resurrection: Rm 8,17 And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.