Opus Dei - Saint Josemaría

The First Supernumeraries. The 1948 Workshop

70 years ago, in September 1948, Saint Josemaria organized a...

Working on Trust (5): "Can I have a party?"

A great opportunity for dialogue between parents and...

New Mediterraneans (V): "To Jesus, Through Mary"

As a young priest, Saint Josemaria grasped with new depth a...

Assumption of Mary into Heaven

A 30-minute podcast about the feast of the Assumption and...

New Mediterraneans (IV): "Don't speak: listen to him"

"Resolution: foster, uninterruptedly if possible, friendship...

New Mediterraneans (III): "From the Wound of the right hand"

A "new discovery" in Saint Josemaria's spiritual life....

The Message of Saint Josemaria

A documentary about Opus Dei's message and its founder....

“Broken, but still of use”

Even a broken soup bowl was a topic for St. Josemaría’s...

St. Josemaria: Freedom for our Children

St. Josemaría always spoke a lot about freedom: granting it,...

“Jesus, here is John the Milkman”

When St. Josemaria was a young parish priest, there was a...

The Saint of Ordinary Life: October 6, 2002

A 23-minute video by Alberto Michelini with highlights from...

Called to be saints

Opus Dei helps to find Christ in the work, the family and in...

The Way

Read these counsels slowly. Pause to meditate on these...

Furrow

In a note to a 1950 edition of The Way, Saint Josemaría...

The Forge

This book, a compilation of spiritual annotations of...

Friends of God

A canticle to ordinary life, addressed to ordinary...

Christ is Passing By

An audio version of "Christ's Death is the Christian's...

Holy Rosary

One December morning in 1931, Fr. Josemaría dashed off this...

His Impact

Christians have always had recourse to the intercession of saints: their example shows us that it is possible to grow in holiness, and their prayer before God can be especially helpful in times of need.

You can visit Saint Josemaria's tomb in Rome at Our Lady of Peace, Prelatic Church of Opus Dei.

“Place everything in God’s hands”

As well as having given you abundant and effective grace, the Lord has given you a brain, a pair of hands and intellectual powers so that your talents may yield fruit. God wants to work miracles all the time - to raise the dead, make the deaf hear, restore sight to the blind, enable the lame to walk... - through your sanctified professional work, which you will have turned into a holocaust that is both pleasing to God and useful to souls. (The Forge, 984)

Your boat — your talents, your hopes, your achievements — is worth nothing whatsoever, unless you leave it in Christ’s hands, allowing him the freedom to come aboard. Make sure you don’t turn it into an idol. In your boat by yourself, if you try to do without the Master, you are — supernaturally speaking — making straight for shipwreck. Only if ...

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