Friend of young people and good son of the Church

Cardinal Paul Shan S.J.

In an article, Cardinal Paul Shan, S.J., bishop of Kaohsiung and Taiwan's first cardinal, described Josemaria Escriva as a friend of young people and a man who loved the Church. Tags: Apostolate, Youth, Holiness, Vocation

Sowers of peace and joy

Card. François-Xavier Nguyên Van Thuân

The active presence of Christians in society should transform the hopes of the today’s world into deeds of love and of service. If every Christian should be a "creator of peace and justice", the founder of Opus Dei wanted each one to be a "sower of peace and joy". Tags: Joy, Charity, Citizenship, Culture, Faith, Peace

Faith, Work, Culture. The possibility of a Christian Modernity in the message of Saint Josemaría Escrivá

Ana Marta González

When I was asked some months ago to write something about the contribution of Saint Josemaría Escrivá to the ideas of the 20th Century, the proposal left me somewhat perplexed. After all, Saint Josemaría was no professional thinker, nor did he ever try to be one. He prided himself only on being a priest, with a spiritual message to deliver, which he regarded as “old as the Gospel and as the Gospel ever new”. Tags: Culture, Faith, Work, Unity of life

The Founder of Opus Dei - BOOK SYNOPSIS

Benjamin G. Defensor

St. Josemaria Escriva, the founder of Opus Dei, first became aware of a special mission from God while a teenager. It all started when he saw the footprints of a barefoot Carmelite monk on the snow after a snowfall. Tags: Founding of Opus Dei, books

Jolly Good Saint

Atty Sison

This spiritual crisis and what the world needs now was foreseen by a Saint whose footsteps trod this earth for seventy three years. He is St. Josemaría Escrivá de Balaguer. St Josemaría had a clear vision of the current intensifying conflict between the worldly and the unworldly, of man's role of "being in this world but not of this world". Tags: Understanding, Suffering, Faith, Plan of life, The Way of the Cross, The Will of God

‘This donkey will remind you of me,’ he said. I like to think I met a saint

Bishop William Gordon Wheeler

He gave me a little laughing donkey one day in Rome and said: “Put that on the mantelpiece in your study, and every time you look at it, it will remind you to pray for me.” I still have it. It stands permanently on my mantelpiece and sometimes inspires me when I’m taking things too seriously. Tags: The Way, Opus Dei, Vatican II

His whole day was a Mass

Msgr. Jose Maria Garcia Lahiguera

Memories of the Servant of God Msgr. Garcia Lahiguera, Bishop of Valencia. He was a close friend of Saint Josemaría from 1932 onwards, and for some years was his confessor. Tags: Eucharist, Faith, Piety

Building the Future

Silvia Mas

Looking at things from saint Josemaria’s point of view, if he were asked what youth is, or better still, what it should be, he would certainly answer that youth is the time for discovering and freely affirming the meaning of one’s existence; a time for discovering the deepest human and supernatural values, and a time for bringing to life the great loves which every human heart seeks instinctively. Tags: Joy, Culture, Youth, Vocation

St. Josemaria Escriva: A theology of work

E.C. Dioko

St. Josemaria Escriva, founder of Opus Dei. Whenever this writer mentioned the name of this modern-day saint to his friends their usual reaction was: “Who is he?” I would then explain the saint’s theology of work which is the centerpiece of his teaching. Tags: Faith, Work, Virtues

A spiritual guide for our times

Tatjana Goristchewa

“This man is so cheerful that he can’t be an atheist,” Dostoyevsky said once. And Josemaría Escrivá repeated, like a constant refrain, his call to the joy and happiness that comes of being God’s children. Tags: Ecumenical dialogue, Gospel