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Josemaría Escrivá de Balaguer y Albás (born Jose María Mariano Escrivá y Albás; 9 January 1902 – 26 June 1975) was a Spanish Catholic priest who founded Opus Dei, an organization of laypeople and priests dedicated to the principle of everyday holiness. [1]
Opus Dei (Latin for 'Work of God') is an institution of the Catholic Church that was founded in Spain in 1928 by Josemaría Escrivá. Its stated mission is to help its lay and clerical members seek holiness in their everyday occupations and societies. Opus Dei is officially recognized within the Catholic Church, although its status has evolved.
(Opus Dei, p. 265) Escrivá's books, including Furrow, The Way, Christ is Passing By, and The Forge, continue to be read widely both by members of Opus Dei and by other Catholics attracted to his spirituality, which emphasizes the laity's calling to daily sanctification (a message also to be found in the documents of Vatican II). Pope John Paul ...
Opus Dei is formally known as the Prelature of the Holy Cross and Opus Dei. Since its establishment, numerous faithful have earned a reputation for holiness and eventually canonized or beatified. The first to reach the glories of the altar was Escrivá, who was canonized in 2002 by Pope John Paul II .
Josemaría Escrivá had a Jesuit priest as a spiritual director (Fr. Sánchez) at the time that he founded Opus Dei (1928ff.). [22] As a result, he apparently based some of the practices of Opus Dei on the Constitutions of the Society of Jesus, [23] such as: required manifestation of conscience to a superior, seeking prestigious people for membership, a military-style hierarchical authority ...
^ Escriva, Josemaria (1993). Conversations With Josemaria Escriva Sydney New York: Little Hills & Scepter. ^ Henri Denis, Les thêses de l'Opus Dei sont incompatibles avec Vatican II Statement at a press conference 1995 (French)
St. Josemaría Escrivá founded Opus Dei on October 2, 1928 in Madrid, and lived in Rome since 1946 until his death on June 26, 1975, from where he coordinated the expansion of Opus Dei to other countries. Seeing how his dreams of taking the charism of Opus Dei throughout the world were becoming a reality, Josemaría Escrivá felt the need, on ...
1946: Beginning of Opus Dei in Portugal, Italy, and England. Escriva moves to Rome to establish the headquarters of Opus Dei there. 1949: Opus Dei begins spreading overseas, starting in Mexico and the United States. The Way, 999 spiritual considerations written by Escriva. 1950: 16 June. In 1950 with the first constitutions Pope Pius XII grants ...