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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 ...
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 ]
Opus Dei (English: Work of God) is an institution of the Catholic Church which was founded in Spain in 1928 by Josemaría Escrivá.Its stated mission is to help its lay and clerical members to seek holiness in their everyday occupations and within their societies.
[7] He has a devotion to St. Josemaria, [8] and he prayed before his relics for 45 minutes when he once visited the church of the prelature in Rome. [9] Francis beatified Alvaro del Portillo, the successor of Escrivá. [10] Bergoglio said that what he most liked about Opus Dei was the work done for the poor by one of its schools in Buenos Aires ...
According to Escriva, God showed him during Mass the juridical solution to enable priests to be ordained for Opus Dei. 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.
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.
The Way (Spanish: Camino) is a book about spirituality composed by Josemaría Escrivá, the initiator of the Roman Catholic religious organization Opus Dei.The book was published first during 1934 with the name Consideraciones espirituales.
He is one of the members of Opus Dei who were appointed by Franco as ministers (Spain under Franco). He pushed forward the so-called Plan of Stabilization which brought about Spain's transition from economic autarchy to liberalization and internationalization of the national economy. [6] Mario Fernández Baeza, Interior Minister of Chile.