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JOSEMARÍA ESCRIVÁ |
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CENTENARY OF HIS BIRTH |
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Making the workplace holy |
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by working as well as we possibly can and doing it for the right reason – for God, for others; in that way we can become holy ourselves and can help those around us to become holy too. |
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“In God’s service there are no second-class jobs. All of them are important… Which job is better? Whichever is done with greater love for God.”
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With families in Spain (1972) |
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“Escrivá … goes so far as to talk about ‘materialising’, in the good sense, the quest for holiness. For him, it is the material work which must be turned into prayer and sanctity.” Cardinal Luciani (written a month before he became Pope John Paul I) |
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“It is not difficult to convert your work into a dialogue of prayer. No sooner have you offered it and put your hand to the job, than God is already listening, already encouraging. We acquire the style of contemplative souls in the midst of our daily work! Because we become certain that he is watching us, while he asks us to conquer ourselves anew: a little sacrifice here, a smile for someone who bothers us, beginning the least pleasant but most urgent job first, carefulness in little details of order, perseverance in the fulfilment of our duty when it would be easy to abandon it, not leaving for tomorrow what should be finished today: and all this to please him, Our Father God!” Friends of God, 67 |
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