"It is in the simplicity of your ordinary work, in the monotonous details of each day, that you have to find the secret, which is hidden from so many, of something great and new: Love.”Saint Josemaría
In the following article published in the National Post, Mgr Dolan,Vicar of Opus Dei for Canada, tells us about the joy of serving and the lessons he learned from his father, St. Josemaria and Lorena Ochoa.
My father, freshly arrived from Maryland, sat in his hotel room placing batteries into a flashlight as diligently as a boot camp recruit loading a rifle under a drill sergeant's stare. Assured there would be light, he twizzled with companion gizmos he'd just bought: jumper cables, crampons, a full-blown roadside emergency kit.
The complete article can be read @ The National Post website (click here)
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