|
|
the message |
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
JOSEMARÍA ESCRIVÁ |
|
|
||
|
CENTENARY OF HIS BIRTH |
|
|
||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Discovering the greatness of ordinary life |
||||
|
as it is precisely there that we can find God and become holy as lay people, by striving to carry out our everyday ordinary activities to the best of our capacity and for the love of God. |
||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
“The founder of Opus Dei understood that he was to urge men and women, in all walks of life, to seek holiness and carry out an apostolate in the midst of the world, through the exercise of their profession or trade, without change of life… Those words, seventy years ago, anticipated the Vatican Council’s decree on the place and the role of the laity in the world.” Cardinal Basil Hume |
|
|||
|
Cardinal Hume saying Mass for Opus Dei members and friends on 2 October 1998, the seventieth anniversary of Opus Dei |
||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
“God waits for us every day, in the laboratory, in the operating theatre, in the army barracks, in the university chair, in the factory, in the workshop, in the fields, in the home and in all the immense panorama of work. Understand this well: there is something holy, something divine, hidden in the most ordinary situations, and it is up to each one of you to discover it.” |
||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
“Love which leads to marriage and family, can also be a marvellous divine way, a vocation, a path for a complete dedication to God.” |
|||
|
|
|
|
||
|
“To become God-like, to be divinised, we must begin by being very human, accepting from God our condition as ordinary men and women, and sanctifying its apparent worthlessness. Thus did Mary live. She who is full of grace, the object of God's pleasure, exalted above all the angels and the saints, lived an ordinary life.” Christ is Passing By, 172
|
||||
|
Lourdes, 1960. Saint Josemaría was very fond of visiting Marian shrines. In London he visited Our Lady of Willesden in 1958 |
|
|||
|
|
|
4 |
||
