Fiesta for the Finding of the Rose

Sunday November 22, 2009 the traditional Fiesta of the Finding of the Rose was held in Pallerols de Rialp, in the Pyrenees mountains, Spain. The fiesta is organized every year by the Association of the Friends of Pallerols, in memory of the time when St Josemaria [...]
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Loving our Lady

How can we love our Lady as tenderly as children?
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Our Lady´s Nativity

Our mother Our mother is a model of correspondence to grace. If we contemplate her life, our Lord will give us the light we need to divinize our everyday existence. Throughout the year when we celebrate feasts dedicated to Mary and frequently on other days, we [...]
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Praying the Rosary

St Josemaria advised people to relate to Our Lady by praying the Rosary as a sign of love.
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St Josemaria in Lourdes

At a gathering in Barcelona on November 26 1972 St Josemaria talks of his short but intense visits to the shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes. The last time St Josemaría went to Lourdes was October 1972. At that time the shrine was surrounded with the [...]
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The Seventh Sorrow: the Burial of Jesus

After this Joseph of Arimathea, who was a disciple of Jesus, but secretly, for fear of the Jews, asked Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus, and Pilate gave him leave. So he came and took away his body. Nicodemus also, who [...]
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The Sixth Sorrow: Christ’s Body is taken down from the Cross

And when evening had come, since it was the day of Preparation, that is, the day before the Sabbath, Joseph of Arimathea, a respected member of the council, who was also himself looking for the kingdom of God, took courage and went to Pilate, and [...]
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The Fifth Sorrow: The Death of Jesus on the Cross

Standing by the cross of Jesus were his mother, and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalen. When Jesus saw his mother, and the disciple whom he loved standing near, he said to his mother, “Woman, behold, your son!” Then he [...]
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The Fourth Sorrow: Mary and Jesus meet on the road to Calvary

So they took Jesus, and he went out, bearing his own cross, to the place called the place of a skull. John 19:17 No sooner has Jesus risen from his first fall than he meets his Blessed Mother, standing by the wayside where He is passing. With immense [...]
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The Third Sorrow: The Loss of the Child Jesus in the Temple

Now his parents went to Jerusalem every year at the feast of the Passover. And when he was twelve years old, they went up according to custom; and when the feast was ended, as they were returning, the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem. His [...]
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