Recently, I’ve been reflecting on various texts about friendship and pondering how it might be one of the most beautiful gifts God has bestowed upon us since creation.
Have you ever thought about what kind of relationship two saints would have had if they had met while they were alive?
St. Josemaría is one of those saints who succeeded in changing the perspective of those who followed him in a very simple way: by fully living his vocation to sanctity as a priest and founder of Opus Dei.
With the meaningful expression “last romantic,” coined by St. Josemaría himself, Msgr. Mariano Fazio titles his book, St. Josemaría Escrivá: The Last of the Romantics.
Every time we think about a person who has passed away, we try to deepen their image in our imagination. Often, the easiest way to remember someone is to find people who had at least some contact with them. This applies even when the person we are trying to reconstruct is a saint.
