Saint Josemaria has stayed with us

Thirty-six years ago, on June 26, 1974, Saint Josemaria said in the Teatro Coliseo in Buenos Aires: “I’m going away, but I’ll come back, and what’s more, I’ll stay.” This year, St Michael’s Cathedral in the center of Buenos Aires, has seen one way in which this promise has come true. Tags: June 26, Devotion

Listening to St. Josemaria in English

A US website offers CDs and MP3s of St Josemaria’s works as well as the Gospels and much more – and it all started from tackling a personal problem head-on. Tags: books, mp3

Students pitch in to help Haiti rebuild

Students from Trinidad & Tobago, on North Hall’s Summer 2010 Haiti Outreach Program, spent a week on reconstruction work in Haiti, devastated after January’s earthquake. Tags: Youth, Solidarity, University, Trinidad and Tobago

Dubbo Service Project

"I participated in a service project to Dubbo, an inland Australian city with a large Indigenous Australian community". The project was based in one of Dubbo’s less affluent areas at a community centre where we would run a holiday program for indigenous children. Tags: Youth, Solidarity, Australia

Novena for families

A new novena to St Josemaria is now available on this website: the Novena for Families. Tags: Marriage, family, novena

A Letter from Thailand

About 100 people participate in the Mass in honor of St. Josemaria that took place in Bangkok on Saturday 26 June. Meg, one of the participants, wrote this letter about the preparations for this Mass in Thailand. Tags: June 26, Holy Mass

Celebrating the Feast Day of Saint Josemaria in Calgary, Canada

Rev. Daniel Stevenot celebrated Holy Mass in honor of St. Josemaria Escriva at St. Bernard’s Church. Among the concelebrants were Rev. Wilbert Chin Jon, Pastor of St. Bonaventure Church and Rev. Fernando Mignone, assisted by Deacon Nathan Siray. Tags: June 26, Holy Mass, Canada

Photos from Masses of Saint Josemaria around the world

Masses of Saint Josemaria have been celebrated in different countries around the world. The following are some of the photos. Tags: June 26, Holy Mass, India, Trinidad and Tobago

Pope's first Angelus in Castelgandolfo 2010

Tags: Pope, Benedict XVI, Rome

From the Philippines: Saint of the ordinary

Making the right choice is not easy. It involves a struggle with oneself. And of course, one keeps falling. But holiness is not about people who are already perfect. And that is why this saint, who considered himself an ordinary man who struggled every day of his life can show us that holiness is for everyone... Tags: Ordinary life, June 26, Philippines

Mass of St. Josemaria in Saint Lucia, June 2010

Put out into deep water! Tags: June 26, Holy Mass

New research on the history of Opus Dei

The fourth number of Studia et Documenta (2010), a journal written mainly in Spanish and Italian about the history of Opus Dei and its founder St Josemaria Escriva de Balaguer, has just come out. Tags: Study, History, Madrid, Opus Dei, Devotion, residence, Australia, US, Italy