10 questions about marriage

St Josemaria answers ten questions about love, marriage, engagement, faithfulness, raising children, the main values in achieving a united family, what happens when a couple can’t have children… 1- What are the most important values in Christian marriage? 2- Father, what is your advice for a [...]
Tags: Children, Marriage, Love, family, engagement, Conversations with Josemaría Escrivá

Testimony

Living with an angel on earth. His burden is not heavy

Our youngest son, Inigo, was born on April 13, 2008. There were complications with the pregnancy, and I was hospitalized in the high-risk unit. One of the ultrasound scans showed that our baby had severe heart problems. We knew there was a 50-50 chance he [...]
Tags: Cross, Suffering, Sickness, Children, difficulties

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How can we endure suffering with joy?

Rodolfo and Lucia suffered the loss of their small son. How can people see God’s hand in events like that? St Josemaria replies to someone in a similar situation, who asked him how to bear suffering with joy.
Tags: Abandonment to God, Cross, Suffering, Children, Death, family

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Prayers for children

When Josemaría was very little, his mother and father taught him to pray short and simple prayers to Jesus, Mary and his Guardian Angel. In the morning, To our Lady St Josemaría's Mommy taught him to get up straight away in the morning and offer [...]
Tags: Education, Children, For younger readers

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When you place the statuette of the Baby Jesus in the manger...

www.romereports.com December 13, Benedict XVI blessed the baby Jesus figures, called "bambinelli," which families then place in the Nativities of their homes. It's a moment that brings hundreds of families and children together. After praying the Angelus the Pope addressed some words to the children of [...]
Tags: Children, Pope, Benedict XVI, Christmas

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Saint Josemaria's song, Peru

A children’s song in Spanish about the life of Saint Josemaria composed in Peru, sung by the Torrecillas kindergarten choir, in Lima (Peru). The song was composed in 2008 by Mónica Roca, who explains that in writing the lyrics she was inspired by the book [...]
Tags: Children, For younger readers

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Center for the Integral Development of Women (CADI)

CADI: Center for the Support of Integral Development “I’ve been coming to CADI since it started, when there was no building and the meetings and clinics were held in the house of one of the neighbors, Don Catalino, who vacated one of his rooms for us,” [...]
Tags: Education, Children, Service, Solidarity, Women

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Escriva school in The Philipines

For Leonora Vinluan, MA Values Education alumna, running her own school had been a longtime dream. In 2005, after finishing her studies at UA&P University of Asia and the Pacific , in the Philippines , that dream was realized with a little help from [...]
Tags: Education, Children, Solidarity

Testimony

An ordinary man with an extraordinary challenge

Nicole Joseph Dookie was born in Trinidad, in a Christian family. Moved by the example of her husband, Jerome Dookie, she was received into the Catholic Church in March 2002, and joined Opus Dei as a Supernumerary in October that same year. At about that [...]
Tags: Sickness, Children, Death, family

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A Professional Outlook On the Work Of The Home

HomeAdvantage Plus, LLC is a corporation launched in late 1997 to provide educational resources and practical Information for creating a home that enhances the quality of life for individuals and families. HomeAdvantage Plus was conceived in my heart in April of 1973 when I joined Opus [...]
Tags: Family and work, Children, Service, Work