The Resurrection

On the evening of that day, the first day of the week, the doors being shut where the disciples were, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said to them, “Peace be with you.” When he had said this, he [...]
Tags: Joy, Gospel, Jesus Christ

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His death on the Cross

So they took Jesus, and he went out, bearing his own cross, to the place called the place of a skull, which is called in Hebrew Golgotha. There they crucified him, and with him two others, one on either side, and Jesus between them. Pilate [...]
Tags: Contemplation, Contrition, Cross, Gospel, Jesus Christ, Mortification

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The Passion

From that time Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things from the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and on the third day be raised (Mt 16:21). «Pilate speaks: It is your custom [...]
Tags: Contemplation, Cross, Gospel, Jesus Christ

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The Mute Devil

And when they came to the disciples, they saw a great crowd about them, and the scribes arguing with them. And immediately all the crowd, when they saw him, were greatly amazed, and ran up to him and greeted him. And he asked them, what [...]
Tags: Defects, Gospel, Sincerity

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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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The Beatitudes

Seeing the crowds, he went up on the mountain, and when he sat down his disciples came to him. And he opened his mouth and taught them, saying: Blessed are the poor in spirit... (Mt 5:1ff). The preaching of Saint Josemaría Escrivá was based on [...]
Tags: Gospel, Jesus Christ, Supernatural outlook

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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

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The Birth of Our Lord

And while they were there, the time came for her to be delivered. And she gave birth to her first-born son and wrapped him in swaddling clothes and laid him in a manger, because there was no place for them in the inn (Lk 2:6-7). A [...]
Tags: Gospel, Jesus Christ, Our Lady

Testimony

I had never been to anything like it in my life

A friend invited me to go to a morning of recollection. I had never been to anything like that in my whole life… I started to read the Gospel and to pray with The Way. It was a totally different world. One of the ideas [...]
Tags: Gospel, Jesus Christ, Prayer, Retreat

Testimony

A man that knew how to love

In the 27 years that have gone by since Josemaria Escriva’s “dies natalis”, or birthday into Heaven, on June 26, 1975, many people have asked about the “secret” of his life: why did he attract so many people? Why is it that when others listened [...]
Tags: Love of God, Gospel, Jesus Christ, Interior life, Women