Overcoming the difficulties

For a son of God each day should be an opportunity for renewal, knowing for sure that with the help of grace he will reach the end of the road, which is Love. That is why if you begin and begin again, you are doing [...]
Tags: Abandonment to God, Defects, Divine sonship, Ascetical struggle, Optimism, Supernatural outlook, difficulties

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Sanctity is for everyone

Chosen from all eternity You and I belong to Christ’s family, for he himself has chosen us before the foundation of the world, to be saints, to be blameless in his sight, for love of him, having predestined us to be his adopted children through Jesus [...]
Tags: Ascetical struggle, Holiness, Vocation

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Divine mercy

The "Festival of Forgiveness" Madrid's Retiro Park will host the "Festival of Forgiveness" during World Youth Day 2011. Hundreds of priests will be located in the park for people to confess throughout the day. The priests will be available to listen to confessions in all major [...]
Tags: Sacrament of Reconciliation, Contrition, Conversion, Ascetical struggle

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Parable of the Sower

And when a great crowd came together and people from town after town came to him, he said in a parable: A sower went out to sow his seed; and as he sowed, some fell along the path, and was trodden under foot, and the [...]
Tags: Defects, Gospel, Ascetical struggle

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Temptations in the Desert

Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. And he fasted forty days and forty nights, and afterwards he was hungry. And the tempter came and said to him, If you are the Son of God, command [...]
Tags: Gospel, Jesus Christ, Ascetical struggle

Testimony

One day I too received the gift of a vocation

I came across Opus Dei through a letter that arrived at our local school about the Zunil School of Home and Hotel Management. My daughter Mirna was interested. We went to visit the school, we liked it and she decided to study there. Then the [...]
Tags: Ascetical struggle, Opus Dei, Ordinary life, Vocation, supernumerary

Testimony

Without changing anything, it changed everything

The fascinating world of horses has led me to dedicate many years to different equestrian sports, and as time passes I feel more and more that it has been my whole life. I have gone in for dressage, and taken part in national and international [...]
Tags: Sport, Divine sonship, Ascetical struggle, Presence of God

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“Deeds are love – not sweet words”

Bishop Javier Echevarría recalls the divine locution that gave rise to n. 933 in The Way: “There is a story of a soul who, on saying to our Lord in prayer, ‘Jesus, I love you,’ heard this reply from heaven: ‘Love means deeds, not sweet [...]
Tags: Generosity, Javier Echevarria, Ascetical struggle

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A new year, a new struggle

Saint Josemaría always taught that what counts for holiness is the ability to correct ourselves constantly. “You know from personal experience – and you’ve often heard me saying so, to forestall any discouragement – that interior life consists of beginning and then beginning again, day [...]
Tags: Ascetical struggle