Accounts of favours obtained on 2010

Every day I thank God and St Josemaria that I am alive When I was four I lost my mother. I was left alone with my father and older sister. My father married again and had seven more children. When I was sixteen a [...]
Tags: Prayer, Devotion, prayer-card, novena

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Early Days in Madrid

In mid-April 1927 Father Josemaria moved to Madrid, to study for a doctorate in law while working as assistant priest at the church of St Michael. Having almost no contacts there, he first stayed in modest lodgings, but soon transferred to a residence for priests [...]
Tags: October 2, 1928, Founding of Opus Dei, Madrid, Prayer, Poverty, Priesthood

St Josemaria taught me how to pray

For Angie Reckart, her relationship with God, and learning to talk to him as her best friend, is key to a fulfilling life in the world of the media.
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St Josemaria prayer-cards in more languages

Chinese is spoken by nearly 1400 million people worldwide. Now the prayer-card of St Josemaria is available in Chinese. It is also available on this website in pdf format in Thai, Vietnamese, Arab, Bulgarian and Armenian, and other languages. “When the Lord calls me and [...]
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I'm short of time

A doctor asks St Josemaria Escriva: “Some days our work leaves us no time for anything else. How can we keep sanctifying ourselves and manage our homes?”
Tags: Family and work, Prayer, Plan of life, Work, Interior life, Priestly soul

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The Holy Rosary

Take the Holy Rosary, one of the most deeply rooted of Christian devotions. The Church encourages us to contemplate its mysteries. She wants to engrave upon our heart and our imagination, together with Mary's joy and sorrow and glory, the spellbinding example of Our Lord's [...]
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Christian unity

The Church asks the faithful for more intense prayer for unity in the week of January 18 to 25, culminating on the feast of St Paul. 8 days = 8 prayers Please say a prayer each day for the following intention: that all of us Catholics may [...]
Tags: Ecumenical dialogue, Church, Prayer, Unity

Loving priests deeply

Filmed encounter of St Josemaria with other priests, Pamplona, Spain, 1972
Tags: Church, Prayer, Priesthood, Love

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To launch out into great undertakings

Fr Cesar Ortiz-Echague was born in Madrid in 1927. He started work as an architect in 1952. He had met St Josemaria in January 1945, and in October of that same year he asked to be admitted to Opus Dei. As from 1959, he provided [...]
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Novena for Work to St Josemaria

Fr Francisco Faus, born in Barcelona in 1931, is a priest of the Prelature of Opus Dei. He graduated in law at the University of Barcelona and did a doctorate in canon law at the University of St Thomas Aquinas, Rome. He was ordained in [...]
Tags: Prayer, Piety, Work, novena