When St Joseph Sleeps

Dear sisters and brothers: Recently I saw in a friend’s house a representation of St. Joseph that really made me think. It was a relief from a Baroque Portuguese altarpiece, depicting the night of the escape into Egypt. You see an open tent with an angel [...]
Tags: St Joseph, Interior life, The Will of God, Pope Benedict XVI

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Interactive timeline

From the time when this website about St Josemaria Escriva started in 2003, up to the present, thousands of messages have been received testifying to the universal spread of his message, the fruitfulness of his life, and the confidence with which people ask for his [...]
Tags: History, Opus Dei, The Will of God

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The Seminary Years

Why am I becoming a priest? Our Lord wants something: what is it? And in Latin — not very elegant Latin — … I kept repeating Domine, ut videam! Ut sit! Ut sit! The thing that you want, and that I don’t know — make [...]
Tags: Priesthood, The Will of God, Saragossa

Testimony

Msgr. Adam Exner, Archbishop of Vancouver, Canada

Saints are not people who plan and organize their particular style of life and perfection, and follow it strictly on their own strength. Saints are people who love and trust God to the point that they let him guide them and lead them where he [...]
Tags: The Will of God

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Jolly Good Saint

The creeping tentacles of secularism and paganism or the unbridled worship of the things of this world keep growing, without us being aware of it. This spiritual crisis and what the world needs now was foreseen by a Saint whose footsteps trod this earth for seventy [...]
Tags: Understanding, Suffering, Faith, Plan of life, The Way of the Cross, The Will of God

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Malaysians to witness canonisation of Escriva

A group of some 20 Malaysian Catholics attended the canonization of Josemaria Escriva. A Malaysian newspaper, The Sunday Star, published a brief article on the day of the canonization ceremony to commemorate the event. KUALA LUMPUR: A group of about 20 Malaysians Catholics is attending [...]
Tags: Canonization, Places in Rome, The Will of God