To Know Him and To Know Yourself (XII): Souls of Liturgical Prayer

Saint Josemaria found in the words and actions of the Church's liturgy an abundant source for personal prayer.
"The holiness that Our Lord demands of you is to be achieved by carrying out with love of God your work and your daily duties, and these will almost always consist of small realities.”(Saint Josemaría)
Saint Josemaria found in the words and actions of the Church's liturgy an abundant source for personal prayer.
On the 2nd of October, the day on which in 1928 Saint Josemaria first "saw" Opus Dei, God continues inviting us to share in his ...
What is the true meaning of "mortification" in our Christian life. An article by Jutta Burggraf (PhD in Theology from the University of Navarre), who ...
"We need to remember the beautiful, great things that God has done for each of us, since a prayer of remembrance does a lot of ...
The language of prayer is mysterious. We cannot control it, but little by little by persevering in prayer we find that God changes our heart.
Praying for and accompanying loved ones and all those in need now, offering sacrifices for them. This is a splendid program for our spiritual life ...
In the discreet silence of the Sacraments, Jesus waits for us to freely open our heart to Him.
"God wants us to enjoy our mission as an apostle, to savor it, to savor Christ’s love for souls."
In our life of prayer, difficulties and moments of darkness may arise. But we should have the certainty that God is especially close to us ...
We have “a direct line with God Our Lord. He is so good that He is always available for us." A new article in the ...
Pope Francis said in his homily at the Easter Vigil: “Jesus’ hope is different. He plants in our hearts the conviction that God is able ...
Saint Josemaria always saw in the care for little things a way to respond to God's infinite love for us. A new article on ...
“Jesus doesn’t want our prayer to be an isolated element in the midst of our other activities, with little power to transform our lives.”
Saint Josemaría spoke about the quid divinum, the “divine element" that we can discover around us and in everything we do. Then a new dimension ...
What is spiritual reading and what does it aim to achieve? Why did Saint Josemaría include this practice in the plan of spiritual life he ...
God's language is much richer than ours. He can speak to us in many different ways, with words and also with deeds.
Just as Jesus accompanied Nathaniel from afar, under the fig tree, we too can accompany our loved ones if we are united to Christ.
During these days of quarantine, most of us find it very difficult to go to confession. Perhaps a return to normalcy is still far off ...