Josemaría Escrivá de Balaguer June 26
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Saint Josemaria Escriva de Balaguer , 1902-1975, Josemaria Escriva
Founder of Opus Dei. By the time of his death, Opus Dei had spread to five continents with over 60,000 members of 80 nationalities, and today has over 80,000 members, most laymen.

Opus Dei received the approval of the Holy See on 16 June 1950. Josemaria traveled frequently throughout Europe and Latin America to work for the growth of Opus Dei.

Saint Josemaria published several books, among them The Way, Friends of God, The holy Rosary, Furrow, Christ is passing by, The Way of the Cross, The forge, In love with the Church, Conversations

He was a real master of Christian living and reached the heights of contemplation with continuous prayer, constant mortification, a daily effort to work carried out with exemplary docility to the motions of the Holy Spirit, with the aim of serving the Church as the Church wishes to be served."

I met him in Salamanca, Spain, about 50 years ago.

Canonization of St. Josemaria with good pictures

Born 9 January 1902 at Barbastro, Spain
Died 26 June 1975 of natural causes in his office in Rome, Italy; body at Prelatic Church of Our Lady of Peace at Viale Bruno Buozzi 75, Rome, Italy
Beatified 17 May 1992 by Pope John Paul II Canonized 6 October 2002 by Pope John Paul II
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Readings: With supernatural intuition, Blessed Josemaria untiringly preached the universal call to holiness and apostolate. Christ calls everyone to become holy in the realities of everyday life. Hence work too is a means of personal holiness and apostolate, when it is done in union with Jesus Christ. -Pope John Paul II in his homily at the beatification of Saint Josemaria
Saints are men and women of God, souls identified with Jesus Christ. This is the conclusion we reach when we approach the life of Saint Josemaría Escrivá. But saints are not supermen, nor are they people out of the ordinary, whom it is impossible to capture in words. It is precisely to Saint Josemaría that we owe a fundamental teaching in this regard: “Let's not deceive ourselves: in our life we will find vigor and victory and depression and defeat. This has always been true of the earthly pilgrimage of Christians, even of those we venerate on the altars. Do you remember Peter, Augustine, or Francis? I have never liked biographies of saints which naïvely — but also with a lack of sound doctrine — present their deeds as if they had been confirmed in grace from birth. No. The true life stories of Christian heroes resemble our own experience: they fought and won; they fought and lost. And then, repentant, they returned to the fray.” The struggle to identify ourselves with Christ, however, is a difficult, sincere, joyful, and persevering endeavor. But, above all, it is a work of the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Love, which makes us into children of God in his Son.

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Saint Josemaria Escriva de Balaguer , 1902-1975, Josemaria Escriva Founder of Opus Dei. By the time of his death, Opus Dei had spread to five continents with over 60,000 members of 80 nationalities, and today has over 80,000 members, most laymen.

Saint Josemaria Escriva de Balaguer , 1902-1975, Josemaria Escriva
Founder of Opus Dei. By the time of his death, Opus Dei had spread to five continents with over 60,000 members of 80 nationalities, and today has over 80,000 members, most laymen.