Our family has gone through very difficult moments

I’m a teacher, but at present I work for a big airline in Nairobi. In Kenya where even mothers with small children have to work full time to make ends meet, many families suffer very much. There is no question of staying home to look [...]
Tags: Abandonment to God, Family and work, Children, Prayer, Order

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Letting God work

I have always been struck by the interpretation which Josemaría Escrivá gave of the name Opus Dei—an interpretation which we could call biographical and which allows us to understand the founder in his spiritual dimension. Escrivá knew that he should found something, but he was [...]
Tags: Abandonment to God, Love of God, Divine sonship

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Escrivá a Source of Inspiration for the Modern World

"Opus Dei marked a decisive intervention by God in the life and the work of many individuals and of the Church at large." An article in memory of saint Josemaria by the Archbishop of Tuam, was published in The Irish Catholic. "Eaten bread," they say, "is [...]
Tags: Abandonment to God, Apostolate, Canonization, God’s glory, Presence of God

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Divine Filiation

I first met this expression, sounding Greek to me at that time, when I read a book of homilies by Opus Dei founder saint Josemaria Escriva. That was many years ago, when I was still in college. I remember how deeply moved I was when I [...]
Tags: Abandonment to God, Faith, Divine sonship

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The work that Escrivá did not want to found. The story of a priest who became a saint

It was October 6, 2002, and St Peter’s Square, which has seen so many crowds, had never seen one quite so vast. I have a privileged memory of it all, at least the visuals, because I was helping Giuseppe De Carli with the television transmission. [...]
Tags: Abandonment to God, Canonization, Pope John Paul II, Priesthood

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Holy humorist

Much has been written, and is being written, about Josemaria Escriva, the founder of Opus Dei. But there is a side to him that is rarely commented on, but was noticed by his contemporaries. It was his good humor. I was reminded of it recently when [...]
Tags: Abandonment to God, Joy, cheerfulness