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  St. Josemaría Escrivá
Josemaria Escriva de Balaguer was born in Barbastro, Spain, on January 9, 1902, the second of six children of Jose and Dolores Escriva.
Josemaria was ministering, learned the practical meaning of charity and their Christian responsibility to help out in the betterment of society.
Josemaria received a new foundational grace to establish the Priestly Society of the Holy Cross, which made it possible for some of Opus Dei's lay faithful to be ordained as priests.
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  Josemaría Escrivá - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
He says that the process was fast because first, Escriva's figure is "of the universal importance;" second, the Postulators "knew what they were doing;" third, in 1983 the procedures were simplified in order to present "models who lived in a world like ours." Fr.
Professor Peter Berglar, a German historian, asserts that Franco's falangists suspected Escriva of "internationalism, anti-Spainism and freemasonry" and that during "the first decade of Franco's regime, Opus Dei and Escriva were attacked with perseverance bordering on fanaticism, not by enemies but by supporters of the new Spanish state.
Escriva together with the Popes have preached that all citizens should practice patriotism and love for their country together with loving other nations as well.
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 Escriva - Who is Who in the Catholic Church?
Josemaria Escriva is one of those heroes whose life made a differences in many other lives.
Blessed Josemaria Escriva, the founder of Opus Dei, opened a new path of holiness in the Catholic Church, teaching that men and women can achieve holiness by performing their work and daily duties with a Christian spirit.
Josemaria Escriva was born in Barbastro, Spain, on January 9, 1902.
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 Astrology Software for Research - Josemaria Escriva de Balaguer - astrology chart
Escriva de Balaguer y Albas, marques of Peralta, Monsignor Josemaria, known as "El Padre." His organization spread around the world to some 80,000 members, doing service and benefits and becoming wealthy in their endeavors.
Josemaria received his mission from God while on spiritual retreat – the founding of Opus Dei, a way of sanctification in daily work and in the fulfillment of the Christian's ordinary duties.
Josemaria took up residence in Rome where he obtained a doctorate in Theology from the Lateran University and was appointed by Pope Pius XII as a consultor to two Vatican Congregations, as an honorary member of the Pontifical Academy of Theology, and as an honorary prelate.
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 Saint Josemaria Escriva de Balaguer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Josemaria Escriva de Balaguer was born in Barbastro, Spain, on January 9, 1902, the second of six children of Jose and Dolores Escriva.
Josemaria received a new foundational grace to establish the Priestly Society of the Holy Cross, which made it possible for some of Opus Dei's lay faithful to be ordained as priests.
During Vatican Council II (1962-1965), Monsignor Escriva worked closely with many of the council fathers, discussing key Council themes such as the universal call to holiness and the importance of laypersons in the mission of the Church.
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 Opus Dei - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Opus Dei was founded by St. Josemaria Escriva, who as a young lad saw "footprints in the snow" left by a monk walking barefooted in winter.
Escriva preached that Christians should love freedom because God the Son himself, on becoming man, took on human freedom.
The Vatican, Opus Dei and Josemaria Escriva (http://www.vatican.va/latest/documents/escriva_pontefici_en.html)
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 Josemaría Escrivá - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Allen (2005) states that based on his research Escriva could not be said to be pro-Franco (for which he was criticized for not joining other Catholics in praising Franco) nor anti-Franco (for which he was criticized for not being pro-democracy).
According to Vasquez de Prada, a writer who produced a three-volume biography of Escriva, the move has nothing to do with ambition but with fairness and loyalty to his family's real name, a loyalty which his father, Jose Escriva insisted on.
The addition of "de Balaguer" was also a necessity felt by many Spanish families to distinguish their family names from others with the same name but who proceed from other regions, especially if the other families have histories which are peculiar and entirely different from one's own.
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 Religious Movements Homepage: Opus Dei
Josemaria Escriva was born in Babastros, Spain in 1902.
Escriva's father was a priest and raised the family religiously, yet Escriva spent most of his youth without any unique desire to follow his father's vocational path.
When Escriva received the vision of "the Work", he imagined a group of lay people who, through their everyday profession and the guidance of Opus Dei, would be able to find God in their work and reach holiness through the life of the laity.
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 Patron Saints Index: Saint Josemaria Escriva
As a young man, Josemaria saw the bare footprints left in the snow by a monk; the sight moved him, and kindled a desire for religious vocation.
The cure of Sister Rubio was unanimously approved by the Board of Physicians for the Congregation of the Causes of Saints on 6 July 1991.
On 20 December 2001 a second miracle attributed to Monsignor Escriva's intervention was decreed by the Congregation and approved by Pope John Paul II.
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 St Josemaria Escriva   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Josemaria Escriva sinh tại Barbastro (Tây ban nha) ngày 9 tháng Giêng năm 1902 (cách đây 100 năm).
Cha Josemaria Escrivà de Balaguer viết: "Các cơn khủng hoảng của thế giới ngày nay là những cơn khủng hoảng về khan hiếm các vị Thánh".
Cha Escriva không nhìn vào những khuyết điểm, bởi vì nếu chỉ nhìn vào khuyết điểm của con người, sẽ không làm được gì cả và trở nên bi quan.
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 The Christian Materialism of Blessed Josemaría Escrivá
Blessed Josemaria said these zealous defenders of the spirit "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.
According to Escriva, "the secret" of Opus Dei is not work, but prayer: "If you are not a man of prayer, I don't believe in the sincerity of your intentions when you say that you work for Christ" (The Way, no. 109).
According to Escriva work carried out with perfection, offered to God and done in God's presence is a prayer: "An hour of study, for a modern apostle, is an hour of prayer" (The Way, no. 335).
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 Josemaria Escriva
Josemaria travelled frequently throughout Europe and Latin America to work for the growth of Opus Dei.
O God, You granted your priest Blessed Josemaria countless graces, choosing him as a most faithful instrument to found Opus Dei, a way of sanctification in daily work and in the fulfillment of the Christian's ordinary duties.
Grant that I too may learn to turn all the circumstances of my life into occasions of loving You and of serving the Church, the Pope and all souls with joy and simplicity, lighting up the pathways of this earth with faith and love.
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 BBC NEWS | World | Europe | Pope creates controversial saint
Pope John Paul II has canonised Jose Maria Escriva de Balaguer, a Spanish Roman Catholic priest and founder of the Opus Dei movement.
Escriva, a Spaniard who died in 1975, founded Opus Dei, meaning Work of God, to promote the principle that holiness can be achieved through excellence in every day tasks.
Spanish doctor Manuel Nevado Rey, whose recovery from a radiation-caused skin disease is considered a miracle performed by Escriva, was among the crowd.
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 Jaminmark Catholic Bookstore: Scepter Publishers, Opus Dei, Josemaria Escriva, Catholic Books, Liturgical Books, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Recounted are many incidents of Escriva's life in Spain and in Rome, the obstacles he encountered in establishing Opus Dei around the world, his intense life of prayer and apostolate, and his friendships with persons in all walks of life.
Escriva expresses his filial love for our Mother the Church in words which are both attractive and compelling.
Lovers of St. Josemaria's writings will particularly cherish his two devotional guides, The Way of the Cross and Holy Rosary, and the hard-to-find collection of the saint's illuminating interviews about the nature and purpose of Opus Dei, Conversations with Josemaria Escriva.
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 St. Josemaria Escriva de Balaguer - Saint of the Day - American Catholic
Born in Barbastro, Spain, Josemaria Escriva de Balaguer sensed early in life that he had a vocation to the priesthood.
At the same time Father Escriva was beginning to envision a movement that would offer ordinary people help in seeking holiness through their everyday activities.
Escriva died in 1975, Opus Dei could be found in dozens of places around the globe.
www.americancatholic.org /Features/Saints/saint.asp?id=1908   (383 words)

  
 Saint Josemaria Escriva - ApostolicWiki
Allen (2005) states that based on his research Escriva could not be said to be pro-Franco (for which he was criticized for not joining other Catholics in praising Franco) nor anti-Franco (for which he was criticized for not being pro-democracy).
In 1968, Escriva petitioned for and was granted by the Government of Spanish dictator Franco the title of Marques de Peralta.
Escriva anticipated the return to the Patrimony of the Church brought by the Second Vatican Council...He was able to anticipate the great themes of the Church's pastoral aciton in the dawn of the third millennnium of her history."
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 Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | The dictator, the saint and the minister
Around 1928 (the date is disputed), Josemaria Escriva, a young priest and law student with a pale, intense face and wire-rimmed glasses, decided to start a new Catholic movement.
Escriva, an Anglophile, saw the country as an international crossroads from which his message could be widely disseminated.
Its value to the Vatican can be gauged by the fact that Escriva was canonised in 2002, barely a quarter of a century after his death, an exceptionally short interval in the view of many commentators, and despite vigorous protests.
www.guardian.co.uk /g2/story/0,3604,1400336,00.html   (1816 words)

  
 Opus Dei - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Opus Dei was founded by a Roman Catholic priest, Josemaria Escrivá, on 2 October 1928 in Madrid, Spain.
There are other members of Opus Dei whose process of beatification have been opened: Ernesto Cofiño, a father of five and a pioneer in pediatric research in Guatemala, Montse Grases, a teenage Catalan student, Toni Zweifel, a Swiss engineer, and the successor of St. Josemaria as head of Opus Dei, Bishop Alvaro del Portillo.
Josemaria: God's Instrument for Opus Dei by Cardinal José Saraiva Martins, Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints - statement of the Vatican on St. Josemaria and Opus Dei's message of sanctity
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 Catholic Culture : Liturgical Year : June 26, 2006 : Josemaría Escrivá de Balaguer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Josemaria Escriva was born in 1902 at Barbastro Spain.
He was ordained in Saragossa in 1925 and by divine inspiration founded Opus Dei which opened a new way for the faithful to sanctify themselves in the midst of the world.
It was as a teenager in Logrono that Josemaria for the first time sensed his vocation.
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 saint josemaria escriva
Josemaria Escriva de Balaguer and called the Opus Dei founder's message of sanctifying ordinary life valid for all believers.
In his homily, the pope said St. Escriva's vision for Opus Dei, which he founded in 1928, harmonized with the Second Vatican Council's message that Christians should not shun the world but work from within it.
Beatified in 1992, St. Escriva was cleared for canonization last year when the Vatican approved of a miracle attributed to his intercession.
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 A Catholic Life: Optional Memorial of St. Josemaría Escriva
Josemaría Escriva was ordained in 1925, one year after his father's death.
Monsignor Escriva died in Rome on June 26, 1975.
Escriva in St. Peter's Square before an immense crowd of people from more than 80 countries.
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 Blessed Josemaria Escriva and Our Lady
Josemaria Escriva in a ceremony at St. Peter's Square.
Blessed Escriva was a spiritual giant in love with Mary and who had a particular devotion to Our Lady Of Fatima.
Monsignor Escriva of the Prelature of Opus Dei, contact the Vice-Postulation of Monsignor Escriva at 300 Riverside Drive, New York, NY 10025.
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 Cardinal Hickey Dedicates Chapel Honoring Josemaria Escriva - Catholic Way
Josemaria Escriva, a Spanish priest, founded Opus Dei in Spain in 1928.
Among the invited guests were the chapel’s architect, Henry H. Menzies, and sculptor Dony MacManus, who rendered the bronze statues of the Founder of Opus Dei and St. Catherine of Siena, on either side of the baldachin altar.
The statue of Blessed Josemaria Escriva, located to the right of the altar, depicts the Founder, who invites the lay faithful to embrace the universal call to holiness.
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 Sun.Star Cagayan de Oro - Llera: St. Josemaria Escriva
Which is not surprising since June 26 is the feast of their founder, St. Josemaria Escriva.
Josemaria's advocacy is really quite simple (have no doubt that the seed of this idea came from God).
Josemaria contended that sanctity is ALSO found in the middle of the world, right where we are, in the everyday realities of daily life.
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 Saint Josemaria Escriva: J at Canadian Content
Additional Information: Saint Josemaria Escriva (1902-1975), the founder of Opus Dei, opened a new path of holiness in the Catholic Church, teaching that men and women can become holy by performing their work and daily duties with a Christian spirit.
Saint Josemaria Escriva, the founder of Opus Dei
Among the pilgrims at the canonization of Josemaria Escriva de Balaguer was the doctor whose inexplicable cure opened the doors for the Opus Dei founder to be declared a saint [Zenit.org]
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 Conversations With Josemaria Escriva, Centennial Edition - SC St. Josemaria Escriva at Getfed Discount Catholic Catalog
These interviews, given during the lifetime of Josemaria Escriva, explain the nature of Opus Dei and describe some basic aspects of its spirit and organization.
Josemaria Escriva also addresses issues of family life, education, society, and the Church.
This edition of Conversations with Josemaria Escriva is part of the The Centennial Edition set which collects together St. Josemaria Escriva’s complete published works — in honor of his canonization and the one hundredth anniversary of his birth.
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 josemaria escriva
ROME -- For a Nigerian member of Opus Dei, the Rome celebration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of the prelature's founder is all the proof needed that he has the relevance and universal appeal of a modern saint.
Janne Haaland Matlary, a professor of international politics at the University of Oslo, Norway, told the congress she began studying the works of Blessed Escriva at a time when she felt her spiritual life and the rest of her life were 7too disconnected.
For many people, she said, work often is not a place of fulfillment and joy, but rather a situation involving boredom, frustration, sometimes exploitation and often the fear of being laid off.
www.catholicherald.com /cns/escriva.htm   (826 words)

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