Mutual care and respect permeated the life of the Holy Family. Their home must surely have been a model for all Christian homes, having been clean and pleasant, complete with the kind of modest adornments that contribute to an elevated human tone of sensibility and good taste.

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Our Lord is calling us to sanctify the ordinary tasks of every day, for the perfection of the Christian is to be found precisely there. Let's consider it once more as we contemplate Mary's life.

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The feasts of All Saints and All Souls bring into focus the Church’s teaching on the Communion of Saints, highlighting the eternal destiny of all believers.

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St. Josemaria Escriva believed that to be truly transformed by Christ's Passion, Christians should constantly identify with Christ’s suffering.

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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.

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The gospel appointed for the Solemnity of St Joseph just might break all the rules for discipleship. Jesus asks to be followed, but here He has effectively hidden Himself from His parents.

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Today is the Solemnity of Christ the King...We finish the liturgical year in a strong fashion, proclaiming Christ as Our King. In many places in Scripture, Our Lord talks about His kingdom, specifically in the parables of the kingdom.

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Looking creates responsibility, especially when looking means seeing another’s distress... The first reading for the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross features a look that saves.

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"God has taken Mary —body and soul— to Heaven: and the Angels rejoice! So sings the Church."

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The Transfiguration of the Lord was a significant event in the life of Jesus Christ.

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St Josemaria expresses the wish in The Way that we should learn to speak of the holy souls in purgatory as “My good friends the souls in purgatory” (571).

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