Ordinary Life and Holiness, Volume 2 St. John of the Cross and a devoted friend and

and a devoted friend and daughter

Jacques shares with us a profound clarity to the full scope of meaning behind Christ’s eight beatitudes

the creation and fall of man

Philip Neri

The Calling of the First Disciples

Ordinary Life and Holiness, Volume 2 St. John of the Cross and a devoted friend andOn May 17, 1992, Pope John Paul II beatified Josemara Escriv de Balaguer. Ten years later, on October 6, 2002, he was proclaimed a saint. He was chosen by God, affirmed the Roman pontiff, to announce the universal call to holiness and to indicate that daily life, common activities, are a path of sanctification. It could be said that he was the Saint of the Ordinary. On September 14, 2005, Pope Benedict XVI blessed a statue of St. Josemara placed on