New "Chair of St. Josemaría Escrivá" Created

At the School of Theology´s request, on December 12, 2011 the University Rector of the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross in Rome decreed the creation of a new Chair of St. Josemaría Escrivá within the Spiritual Theology Department. Tags: Opus Dei, University, Rome

110th anniversary of Saint Josemaria's birthday

Where and when was St Josemaria born? What were his other names? When was he baptized? Who where his parents? What did Saint Josemaria say about them? What kind of childood did Josemaria have? Was his family well off or short of money? Questions and answers about his birth, childhood, family. The best articles, videos and photos around Saint Josemaria's birth and childhood. Tags: Barbastro, The Escriva family, family

The top 11 of 2011

Here are the 11 most viewed 2011 articles of www.josemariaescriva.info: a film, a song, a prayer, a city, an event, a testimony, a letter, a documentary, a videoclip, a book and a game. Tags: Opus Dei, Video-clip, mp3, Video, Audio

Ideas for Christmas presents

A book can make a wonderful Christmas present – and why not choose one of the many books by and about Saint Josemaria? The following is a list of books by him, and others about his life and aspects of his message. Plus DVDs about the “Patron saint of ordinary life”. Tags: books, For younger readers, Video

There Be Dragons in Australia

There Be Dragons, a fiction film based on real events in the life of St Josemaria, is going on show in Australia from December 15. Tags: Opus Dei, There be Dragons

Crossing the Night

In November 1937 during the Spanish Civil War St Josemaria had to escape to where he could carry on his apostolate. A Spanish documentary, "Crossing the Night” describes the escape. A videoclip from the documentary, with English subtitles, is available here. Tags: Spanish Civil War, Crossing the Pyrenees

Powering expansion

What is the domestic administration in Opus Dei? It is absolutely vital, explains Bishop Echevarría, and he recalls some of the things St Josemaria said about it, addressing thousands of young people. This work, done faithfully, will be what powers the expansion of the apostolate. Tags: Opus Dei, Administration, assistant numerary

St Josemaria prayer-card in Latin

People from all over the world can now pray for St Josemaria’s intercession in the same language: Latin. “Latin is a very powerful link uniting the Church of today with that of yesterday and tomorrow” (John XXIII). Tags: prayer-card

Chris Tiu & There Be Dragons

Thanks to the persistence of my mom, I found myself watching an advanced screening of THERE BE DRAGONS last October at the Mall of Asia sponsored by Educhild. Honestly, I thought the movie would be quite dragging as lives of saints are usually portrayed as very pious, where it is easy to guess what comes next. Apparently, there were a lot of twists and turns in the story. The cinematography was excellent as well and I enjoyed the war scenes too! Tags: Philippines, There be Dragons

How to slay your dragon

Close to the film oppening of There Be Dragons in the Philippines, on November 9, Jing Gomez writes in this article how the film can help discover and overcome dragons in our lives. "While fire-breathing, tailed and winged creatures are more fiction than fact, in a way we can say that dragons do exist in our midst. Worse, we find them inside us. Who can deny the dragon of resentment that wells up inside leading to anger and snowballing to hatred?" Tags: Philippines, There be Dragons

Like the first Christians

On the anniversary of Opus Dei's founding, the Prelate has written an extensive pastoral letter on the importance of formation for the spiritual life and the new evangelization. Download the letter Tags: Formation, Javier Echevarria, letter from the Prelate

Saint Josemaria inspired agnostic to film ‘There be Dragons'

A film that will leave the viewer to seek answers, not just on faith and the divine, but on relationships and how forgiveness that’s given and received is as liberating as the truth. Joffe initially didn’t agree to meg the movie but eventually he agreed upon being touched by a documentary about St Josemaria. Tags: Philippines, There be Dragons

The Redeeming Value of Forgiveness

The newest film of Joffe is "There Be Dragons," an epic tale of revolutionaries and saints in a time of a most bloody civil war in which half a million people, perhaps more, were killed in a fraticidal war lasting almost four years. It is also a story of love and heroism amidst jealousy, hatred, and violence, and a very powerful drama of the power of forgiveness to break the enslaving chains of past sins. Tags: Film, Philippines, There be Dragons

'Dragons'

One of the significant and moving scenes in the story is when St. Josemaria uttered the words “all I know is you are loved by God” at the deathbed of a Jew who was assailed by anguish at the thought that he will not enter heaven because of his beliefs. This is the most poignant scene according to Joffe in “his attempt to capture on the screen the power of love”. Tags: There be Dragons

Hints and traces of There Be Dragons

Now in the rounds of premiere showings—in Cebu, it will be on October 16 at the Ayala Theatre—the movie depicts the story of St. Josemaria Escriva, founder of Opus Dei, with some fiction to highlight and encapsulate the Christian message that while nothing much can be done toward the past, a lot can still be done in the future. Tags: Philippines, There be Dragons