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Articles on Christian life 10/09/2017

The second part in an article on the importance of fostering the habit of reading. "What we read does change us. It refines our soul or dulls it; it...

"The Way" — "It was love at first sight"

Testimonies 10/17/2017

"I was baptized an evangelical Lutheran and even received Confirmation, but I can’t claim that I was a good Christian." Another story about how Saint...

"Child Dignity in the Digital World"

From the Pope 10/11/2017

An address by Pope Francis to participants in a congress held in the Vatican on October 6, on the need to protect young people from some harmful...

"Searching for Light" — third video in series

Personal testimonies 10/09/2017

The third video in a series on Sole and Juanpi, an Argentinian couple who share the experience of their married life and young family. The six-video...

Documentary: "Ernesto Cofiño. All can be saints"

Biography 10/13/2017

Dr. Ernesto Cofiño died on October 17, 1991. He dedicated his life to assisting those most in need and vigorously defending human life in his native...

Message from the Prelate (10 October 2017)

Pastoral Letters and Messages 10/10/2017

"A Christian’s fidelity should be a grateful fidelity, because we are not being faithful to an idea but to a Person: to Christ Jesus, our Lord."

"Passionately Loving the World": 50th Anniversary

His message 10/07/2017

On October 8, 1967, Saint Josemaria gave a homily at an outdoor Mass on the campus of the University of Navarra that contains the core of his message...

“What should a Christian hope for?”

Faced by all those men without faith, without hope; by minds desperately near the borders of anguish, seeking for a meaning in their life, you found your purpose: Him! This discovery will permanently inject a new happiness into your existence, it will transform you, and present you with an immense dailyhoard of beautiful things of which you were unaware, and which show you the joyful expanse of that broad path that leads you to God. (Furrow, 83)

Perhaps some of you are wondering, 'What should a Christian hope for?' After all, the world has many good things to offer that attract our hearts, which crave happiness and anxiously run in search of love. Besides we want to sow peace and joy at every turn. We are not content to achieve prosperity just for ourselves. We want to make everyone around us happy as well.

Some people, alas, whose aims are worthy but limited and their ideals only perishable and fleeting, forget that...

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