The secret of married happiness

Children and family life When I think of Christian homes, I like to imagine them as being full of the light and joy that were in the home of the Holy Family. The message of Christmas is heard in all its forcefulness: “Glory to God in [...]
Tags: Understanding, Education, Family and work, Generosity, Children, Freedom, Marriage

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Harambee Africa International

Harambee – All Together for Africa – is a solidarity initiative that originated around the canonization of St Josemaria Escriva. Harambee promotes educational programmes in Africa and about Africa – developmental projects on the sub-Saharan region and awareness-building activities elsewhere designed to encourage a positive [...]
Tags: Gratitude, Canonization, Education, Justice, Solidarity, Harambee

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Centro ELIS, Italy

Centro ELIS, founded in Rome nearly forty years ago, runs a series of training activities connected with employment and sports with one end in view: to help every boy who takes part in them to mature on both the human and the Christian plane. Centro ELIS [...]
Tags: Sport, Education, Pope, Work, Vatican II

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Catechetical Trips

St Josemaria decided to put his shoulder to the wheel in the task of strengthening people’s faith. Starting in 1970, he went on long catechetical trips to various countries around the world. Starting in 1970, the founder of Opus Dei decided to undertake catechetical trips [...]
Tags: Education, Faith, Poverty, Get-together, Catechetical trips

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A Christian Family

St Josemaria recalled gratefully how his parents introduced him step by step to the Christian way of life. Little Josemaría was only two years old when he got sick, so seriously sick that the doctor expected him to die. Around him, the Escrivá household fell [...]
Tags: Barbastro, Suffering, Education, The Escriva family, Marriage

Testimony

Alex Grew 6' Last Night

First let me begin with a story that ties together many of the principles that we have learned in Redfield about character building from Saint Josemaria. Some years ago, we received a call from a local shop owner, telling us he had caught one of [...]
Tags: Education

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Education which is Open to Society

I would like to consider the influence that saint Josemaría Escrivá has had in my life as an educator in Kenya. I will begin by talking about my childhood experiences because I am amazed that while they are so different from saint Josemaría Escrivá’s, I [...]
Tags: Citizenship, Education, Children, Opus Dei

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Teaching the Faith in the Family: Some guidelines from Saint Josemaria Escriva

Parents have the primary responsibility for the education of their own children. This is a recurrent teaching in the Church’s magisterium. The following are some excerpts from a study by Michele Dolz published in n. 32 of the journal Romana, about bringing up children in [...]
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Women in Opus Dei

It may surprise people to discover that Opus Dei, shrouded in orthodoxy, is really a radical, revolutionary movement in the Catholic Church. I certainly was taken by surprise when I stumbled upon that reality in my spiritual searching about eight years ago. Saint Josemaría Escriva, upon [...]
Tags: Beauty, Education, Family and work, Faith, Generosity, Marriage