The Church has one question for the world. It is a question asked of rich and poor, of the powerful and the weak, of those behind bars and those relaxing on the beach: Are you happy?
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The Prodigal Son went out looking for heaven on earth. He was restless at home. He entertained a fantasy that things could be better elsewhere—in a faraway place, with different people, where he could be carefree, an anonymous rogue.
A friend of mine once told me: “You are never freer than when you are doing God’s will, and never less free than when you are doing your own.” There you have the Annunciation.
The devil’s “territory,” apart from those “kingdoms of the world” he claimed as his own when tempting Christ, might be difficult to map out—it was, after all, into the swept and tidied house that the unclean spirit returned with a company of devils worse than himself (cf. Lk 4:5; Mt 12:43-45).
As a teenager, St. Josemaria Escriva followed the normal course of a high school student. He aimed to be a good student, get excellent grades, and dreamed of being an architect. Becoming a priest was not what St. Josemaria had originally thought was for him.
The St. Josemaria Institute is pleased to share a “Spiritual Toolkit” to celebrate and aid our devotion to St. Joseph in preparation for his feast day on March 19.
The saying goes that most people see only what they want to see. If that’s true, then most of us live with a kind of selective blindness.
God wants us to remember. Satan wants us to forget. By distractions, promises, and vanities Satan dupes us into forgetting how merciful God has been to us.
We are at the beginning of Lent: a time of penance, purification and conversion. It is not an easy program, but then Christianity is not an easy way of life.
In the meditations for this month’s Recollection, we reflect on “A Dialogue With Jesus” and “St. Joseph: Model of Creative Courage”.
Beginning on Ash Wednesday, the St. Josemaria Institute invites you to join us each week of Lent as we open our hearts to Jesus and wonder at His love.
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The St. Josemaria Institute is pleased to share a curated selection of resources to help you begin again and to help you advance in your faithfulness to Christ and in your desire for holiness this Lenten season.
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Families have the opportunity, as St. Josemaria explained, to “ensure that God is not regarded as a stranger whom we go to see in the church once a week on Sunday.”
February 14th marks the day of two special anniversaries in the life of St. Josemaria Escriva and the history of Opus Dei.
In the meditations for this month’s Recollection, we reflect on “The Holy Mass as the Center of Our Life” and “Christian Friendship”.
The parents’ mission to educate their children in the faith stems from the sacraments. When they teach the faith at home, it is the Church that is teaching. Their home is the domestic Church.
St. Josemaria would invite people to take the Holy Family as their model and also to try their best, with daily self-giving, to make their family life into a foretaste of heaven.
“See what love the Father has given us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are…. Beloved, we are God’s children now” (1 Jn 3:1-2).
Join the St. Josemaria Institute for the Seven Sundays Devotion to St. Joseph from January 30 to March 13, 2022!
In the meditations for this month’s Recollection, we reflect on “Sowers of Peace & Joy” and “Charity in Action.”