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Coat of arms of Saint Josemaria Escrivá Josemaría Escrivá de Balaguer y Albás , born Jose María Escribá 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 ]
Josemaría Escrivá de Balaguer y Albás, born Jose María Escribá 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.
Escriva takes decided position against the concept of having an interior spiritual life and a separate "not spiritual" professional, social, and family life. According to Opus Dei, Opus Dei's spirituality commits lay people to sanctify themselves in the same place where they were before they met Opus Dei and their place in the world is the ...
Opus Dei (English: 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.
It is not a paradox but a perennial truth: the fruitfulness of the apostolate lies above all in prayer and in intense and constant sacramental life. This, in essence, is the secret of the holiness and the true success of the saints. For Escrivá, lay Christians are called to sanctity in the midst of their ordinary work and daily activities.
1975 - 1980: After Escriva's death on June 26, 1975, the Postulation for the Cause of his beatification and canonization started receiving thousands of reports of favors granted through his intercession; the postulation also received testimonies about his holy life. These came from people all over the world.
Escriva criticized those who "have tried to present the Christian way of life as something exclusively spiritual, proper to pure, extraordinary people, who remain aloof from the contemptible things of this world, or at most tolerate them as something necessarily attached to the spirit, while we live on this earth.
In 2010, he co-authored with Ernst Burkhart the book "Ordinary Life and Holiness in the Teaching of St. Josemaría"(Ed. Scepter, New York 2018) which is the largest and most systematic exposee on St. Josemaría Escrivá, who was defined by Pope John Paul II as the "saint of the ordinary" for having taught on sanctifying one's daily professional ...