“My devotion to Our Lady of Pilar has always accompanied me: my parents, with their Aragonese piety, instilled it in my soul since I was a child,” said St. Josemaria.
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To become contemplative in the middle of the world could be described as relying on the Holy Spirit to “take the temple with us” to any setting, and thus to live the dream of the Fiddler to taste the sweetness of contemplation but without giving up the life of the milkman to do so. After all, it is God’s will that one of His own bring milk to His people.
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St. Josemaria Escriva had a deep and personal devotion to the Archangels. He saw them as powerful intercessors and guides in the Christian life.
The St. Josemaria Institute is pleased to share this interview with Catholic author Patrick O’Hearn, whose book “Humility of the Saints: The Litany of Humility Made Flesh” explores the virtue of humility through the lives of more than fifty-five saints and holy souls.
The devotion to the Seven Sorrows of Mary helps us to meditate on the events in Our Lady’s life when she lovingly and willingly united herself to her Son’s self-giving and sacrifice on the Cross.
St Augustine of Hippo, with an insight born from personal experience, attests that it is by one’s personal struggle to be pure in heart and chaste in body that this integration of love takes place both within a man and in his relationships with God and neighbor.
Achilles’s deepest question nevertheless remains. It is not simply whether fieldwork possesses dignity. It is whether anything can answer death.
Today, in union with the whole Church, we celebrate the triumph of the Mother, Daughter, and Spouse of God.
Written during a period of uncertainty and confusion in the life of the Church, this collection of timeless homilies reveal St. Josemaria’s profound love for the Spouse of Christ and his unwavering trust in the Church’s divine mission.
By now we in the Church are very comfortable applying the term vocation to any state in life that aims at serving God. We use the word broadly to indicate that everyone’s life has something to contribute to the up-building of the kingdom of God on earth and the salvation of souls.
After nearly three decades in the demanding world of academia—a universe of relentless deadlines and constant interruptions—I have discovered that the principles of time management rooted in Catholic spirituality actually work.
You must realize now, more clearly than ever, that God is calling you to serve him in and from the ordinary, secular and civil activities of human life.
On the occasion of Saint Josemaria’s feast day on June 26, Fr. Andrea Mardegan offers a reflection on the spiritual fatherhood of the Founder of Opus Dei, and the meaning of the phrase “every soul has his or her own path.”
That Christ has come to us with a heart made of flesh tells us a lot about how the Sacred Heart loves us, and about the kind of love we need. We are loved by any number of hearts during our earthly lives, but one alone among them we call Sacred.
Today, on the feast of Corpus Christi, we come together to consider the depths of our Lord’s love for us, which has led him to stay with us, hidden under the appearances of the blessed Sacrament.
Here I share with you my top 5 reasons why and how you should to get to know St. Josemaria better.
Join us for the annual Novena to St. Josemaria Escriva on June 17-25!
The Church is rooted in this fundamental mystery of our Catholic faith: the mystery of God who is one in essence and three in persons.
Having just read in the Acts of the Apostles about Pentecost, the day when the Holy Spirit came down on the Lord’s disciples, we are conscious of being present at the great display of God’s power with which the Church’s life began to spread among all nations.
Are we as aware as the first Christians were of the Spirit dwelling within us? Do we need to learn to perceive what was so obvious to them? What evidence is there that God abides in us and we in Him?