What does it mean to pray?

Angela learned from St Josemaria that prayer is making friends with Christ, and holiness is not a theoretical ideal but something to work towards every day.
Tags: Friendship, Jesus Christ, Prayer, Holiness

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Living Holy Week

My Lord and my God, under the loving eyes of our Mother, we are making ready to accompany you along this path of sorrow, which was the price for our redemption
Tags: Jesus Christ, The Way of the Cross, Holy Week

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Holy Week in Pictures

"We can't let Holy Week be just a kind of commemoration. It means contemplating the mystery of Jesus Christ as something which continues to work in our souls. The Christian is obliged to be alter Christus, ipse Christus: another Christ, Christ himself". (Christ is Passing [...]
Tags: Doctrine, Jesus Christ, Holy Week

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Father, I'm Jewish

In Chile, in 1974, in a meeting with hundreds of people, a Jewish girl asks the founder of Opus Dei about the catholic faith.
Tags: Doctrine, Faith, Jesus Christ, family, Jewish

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To be tranquil and serene

How can we be really tranquil and serene? What we can do is be Christ. I remember a secular diocesan priest – a secular priest like us. He lived in Valencia. He was a beneficiary of the Cathedral, that’s all. He lived a holy life and died with a [...]
Tags: Jesus Christ, Peace, Priesthood, Priestly Society of the Holy Cross, diocesan priests

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What is the Holy Rosary?

“The Rosary, my son, is a prayer that is very pleasing to our holy Mother Mary,” said St Josemaria Escriva to a young man who asked him about the meaning of the Rosary.
Tags: Jesus Christ, Holy Rosary, Our Lady, family

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Make your whole day into a Mass

About the Mass – I know you do as I do. You go to Mass in the morning, having prepared for it from the time of the Angelus the day before. You’re thinking how you’re going to say Mass the next day, and that helps [...]
Tags: Jesus Christ, Priesthood, Holy Mass

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How can we be deeply human

A priest asks St Josemaria: “Father, how can we priests be deeply human, while we desire to be divine?”
Tags: Grace, Humility, Jesus Christ, Priesthood, diocesan priests

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The Sacrament of Reconciliation

Confession is the sacrament of God’s forgiveness. In it, says St Josemaria, we find Christ, “who is both father and mother”.
Tags: Sacrament of Reconciliation, Conversion, Jesus Christ

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Father, I am Jewish...

"Father, I'm Jewish." This was how Roberto Ackerman began a question to St Josemaria at a gathering in Caracas, Venezuela. St Josemaria instantly responded that the great loves of his own life were Jewish too
Tags: Jesus Christ, Jewish