Head in to the New Year with the goal to read more each day by following the St. Josemaria Institute Book of the Month Series!
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Celebrations have been underway around the world in honor of St. Josemaria’s Feast Day (June 26th)! If you would like to share photos and stories of your local celebration please forward them to: info@stjosemaria.org. Following are a note and photos from this year’s celebration in Chennai, India: On June 26th 2018, a group of cooperators in […]
Celebrations are underway around the world in honor of St. Josemaria’s Feast Day (June 26th)! If you would like to share photos and stories of your local celebration please forward them to: info@stjosemaria.org. Following are a note and photos from this year’s celebration in Dubai: Sharing with you some photos of our Feast Day Mass […]
Fifth Week of Lent: Restoring All Things in Christ “What a strange capacity man has to forget even the most wonderful things, to become used to mystery! Let’s remind ourselves, this Lent, that the Christian cannot be superficial. While being fully involved in his everyday work, among other men, his equals; busy, under stress, the Christian has to […]
In the following ten questions, St. Josemaria Escriva provides answers and guidance about love, engagement, marriage, fidelity, raising children, keeping a family united, and more: 1. What are the most important values in Christian marriage? “The majority of the members of Opus Dei are married people, so in this field I can speak from the […]
“Please,” “Thank you,” “I’m sorry.” Pope Francis teaches that although these words are easier to say than to mean, they are absolutely necessary. They are part of good manners, meaning respect and the desire for the good of the other, not hypocrisy or pretense. “If a marriage is to preserve its initial charm and beauty, […]
For the past several years, Jackie Alcantara has been in touch with the St. Josemaria Institute informing us about the efforts to celebrate and promote St. Josemaria’s Feast Day (June 26th) in Dubai, UAE. This year, Jackie sent us an update that we are happy to share with you: Thank you so much for posting […]
Since 2014 the St. Josemaria Institute has been a proud supporter of the global campaign for Saxum in the Holy Land. St Josemaria Escriva longed to visit the Holy Land during his lifetime, to follow in the footsteps of Jesus Christ. According to his successor, Blessed Alvaro del Portillo, “he had a great desire to […]
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“I will tell you which are man’s treasures on earth so that you will appreciate them: hunger, thirst, heat, cold, pain, dishonor, poverty, loneliness, betrayal, slander, prison…” St. Josemaria Escriva The Way, no. 194 CARRIER OF GOD’S TENDER AND MERCIFUL LOVE “The canonization of Mother Teresa invites us to look to her as a Christian […]
St Josemaria Escriva had a strong desire to help all married couples, and those preparing for marriage, to find meaning and encouragement in their vocation through a commitment to daily prayer and friendship with God. Friends of the St. Josemaria Institute, Dan and Annie Anderson, were recently married, and shared with us that in preparation […]
by Most Rev. Charles J. Chaput Anything without heart, anything without love — and I mean politics, music, law, art, even religion —anything without love, no matter how brilliant, is finally inadequate and weak. At the end of the day, the human soul yearns to be loved, and to love in return. And it won’t settle for […]
The basic requirement for a good Confession is to have the intention of returning to God like the “prodigal son” and to acknowledge our sins with true sorrow before his representative, the priest. “To those who have been far away from the sacrament of Reconciliation and forgiving love I make this appeal: come back to […]
Act of Faith O my God, I firmly believe that you are one God in three divine Persons, Father, Son and Holy Spirit; I believe that your divine Son became man and died for our sins, and that he shall come to judge the living and the dead. I believe these and all the truths […]
February 14, 2016, marks the 10th Anniversary of the St. Josemaria Institute. Our mission from day one: to promote the life and teachings of St. Josemaria Escriva, and to spread devotion to him to bring people closer to God. During our first decade, we have enjoyed: Living the liturgical seasons and feast days with St. Josemaria […]
For the 50th World Communications Day, Pope Francis issued a message titled Communication and Mercy: A Fruitful Encounter. He explains that: “The digital world is a public square, a meeting-place where we can either encourage or demean one another, engage in a meaningful discussion or unfair attacks… It is not technology which determines whether or […]
We have very sadly gotten almost accustomed to saying God’s name in vain or hearing others do so. There is little reverence in the way people dress and behave at church. There is a loss of the sense of the sacred and of the reverence due to God.
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In the sermon The Praise of Men, [1] after indicating that ridicule is a powerful weapon used by the devil, Blessed John Henry Newman describes a case in which it is the cause of much pain: when a person who had shunned religion turns by God’s grace back to the practice of religion and meets […]
The Saints are men and women whom the Church sets as standards for living holy lives as children of God. Today is the memorial or feast day of Blessed John Henry Newman (1801-1890), a renowned Anglican convert and Catholic priest who stands out for his intellectual accomplishments lived with humility and charity. In “The Praise […]
Junipero Serra, a Spanish Franciscan and founder of nine of the twenty-one California missions in the 18th century, was declared a saint by Pope Francis at a solemn Mass at the Basilica of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D. C. The canonization of Junipero Serra is a call to personal holiness and evangelization. The saints […]
By The McDonald Family Greetings, My wife and I just received our paper copy of your novena for married and engaged couples. We are grateful to have this beautiful devotion on hand for our future together, as we can attest to it’s efficacy. My wife and I were married on June 21, 2013, and we […]
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