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Josemaria Escriva

Saint Josemaría Escrivá de Balaguer y Albás (9 January 1902 – 26 June 1975) was a Roman Catholic priest from Spain who initiated Opus Dei, an organization of laypeople and priests dedicated to the teaching that everyone is called to holiness by God and that ordinary life can result in sanctity. He was canonized during 2002 by Pope John Paul II, who declared Saint Josemaría should be "counted among the great witnesses of Christianity."

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The holy Rosary is a powerful weapon. Use it with confidence and you'll be amazed at the results.

Catholic, Holy, Powerful, Rosary, Weapon

Love our Lady. And she will obtain abundant grace to help you conquer in your daily struggle.

Abundant, Catholic, Obtain, Religious, Struggle

All the things that are now worrying you can be put into a smile which shows your love of God.

Catholic, God, God Love, Love, Smile, Worry

Our Lady listens attentively to what God wants, ponders what she doesn't fully understand and asks about what she doesn't know. Then she gives herself completely to doing the divine will.

Divine Will, Fully, Giving, Ponders, Understand, Want

He has much who needs least. Do not create necessities for yourself.

Consumerism, Create, Necessities, Needs, Overconsumption

Don't judge without having heard both sides. Even persons who think themselves virtuous very easily forget this elementary rule of prudence.

Heard, Judging, Persons, Prudence, Sides, Thinking

Is it not true that your gloominess and bad temper are due to your lack of determination in breaking the subtle snares laid by your own disordered desires? The daily examination of conscience is an indispensible help if we are to follow our Lord with sincerity of heart and integrity of life.

Determination, Heart, Help, Indispensible, Integrity, True

Don't say, "That person bothers me. " Think: "That person sanctifies me".

Bother, Person, Persons, Say, Think, Thinking

At the time of your examination(of sins) beware of the devil that ties your tongue.

Christian, Faith, God, Sins, Ties, Time

'You told me, Father, that after my past life it is still possible to become another St. Augustine. I don't doubt it, and today more than yesterday I want to try to prove it. ' But you have to cut out sin courageously from the root, as the holy Bishop of Hippo did.

Cutting, Father, Holy, Past, Possible

If you don't have a plan of life, you'll never have order.

Ifs, Life, Order, Plan, Plans

As soon as you willfully allow a dialogue with temptation to begin, the soul is robbed of peace, just as consent to impurity destroys grace.

Catholic, Consent, Grace, Soul, Temptation

You must realise now, more clearly than ever, that God is calling you to serve Him in and from the ordinary, secular and civil activities of human life. He waits for us everyday, in the laboratory, in the operating theatre, in the army barracks, in the university chair, in the factory, in the workshop, in the fileds, in the home and in all the immense panorama of work.

Faith, Home, Inspiration, Realise, Waits, Workshop

For everyone, whatever his state--single, married, widowed, or priest-chastity is a triumphant affirmation of love.

Affirmation, Catholic, Married, Triumphant, Widowed

To begin is for everyone. To persevere is for saints.

Begin, Everyone, Persevere, Saint, Saints

When you approach the tabernacle remember that he has been waiting for you for twenty centuries.

Centuries, Christian, Holy Eucharist, Remember, Tabernacle, Waiting

You're bored? That's because you keep your senses awake and your soul asleep.

Asleep, Awake, Bored, Soul

Don't you long to shout to those youths who are bustling around you: Fools! Leave those worldly things that shackle the heart - and very often degrade it - leave all that and come with us in search of Love!

Come, Heart, Long, Love, Saint, Worldly

Turn to Mary, tota pulchra, all pure and wonderful, and tell her: Our Lady and Mother, the Lord wanted you yourself to look after God and tend him with your own hands. Teach me, teach us all, how to treat your Son!

Hands, Mother, Pulchra, Son, Tota

That conversation. . . was as dirty as a sewer! It is not enough for you to take no part in it. You must show your repugnance for it strongly!

Conversation, Dirty, Enough, Part, Repugnance

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