Devotion to St Josemaria in Hong Kong

During the past year, the machines in our laundry had been needing repair quite frequently. The repair man, who is mature and rather loud-voiced, would come punctually to our house to fix the machines. Each time he comes, he would ask for some prayer [...]
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St Josemaria prayer-card in Latin

Da mihi, Sancto Iosephmaria deprecante, gratiam quam a Te postulo... (petitio). Amen. Thus ends the prayer on the St Josemaria prayer-card that has just come out in Latin. This is the 57th language into which it has been translated. For a globalized world People from all over [...]
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Testimony

Let me sleep a little

I’ve been in Opus Dei since 1970, I met St Josemaria in Barcelona in 1972 and I have immense devotion to him. I’m now 90 and have an iron constitution. However, on the way to Mass last Sunday I fell and broke my forearm. After Mass [...]
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My travel-card appeared

I am writing to report a favor from Saint Josemaria. For me as a student in Madrid my travel-card is very important for mobility and time-saving. I’ve used one for ten years and have lost it several times, which has always been a great nuisance. [...]
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Prayers answered for employment & accommodation

I am writing to thank St Josemaría for his intercession before God for favours granted. As a returning resident to my country I began to search for employment, as is the norm. But the days passed by with countless applications to various employers but no [...]
Tags: Prayer, Work, prayer-card, job, Australia, favours of the founder of Opus Dei

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Unconscious for over 30 minutes

This week I was taken into hospital for an emergency appendix operation. It was about six in the morning, and everything was silent in the A and E department of the private hospital in Madrid. The silence was broken by the desperate shouts of a [...]
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The prayer-card has turned my life around

It was 16 years ago when I went on my knees praying to have changes in my life. Then one day I came across the prayer-card of St. Josemaria. I decided to give it a trial, but it has turned my life around completely. I [...]
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Accounts of favours obtained on 2010

Every day I thank God and St Josemaria that I am alive When I was four I lost my mother. I was left alone with my father and older sister. My father married again and had seven more children. When I was sixteen a [...]
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A miraculous downpour

The village of El Espinal, Peru, in the Motupe district, Lambayeque region, was experiencing a severe drought which threatened to destroy the local economy and the livelihood of the inhabitants, who live by growing crops and raising livestock. The people of El Espinal have very little [...]
Tags: Gratitude, Devotion, prayer-card, Pictures and statues of St Josemaria Escriva

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St Josemaria prayer-cards in more languages

Chinese is spoken by nearly 1400 million people worldwide. Now the prayer-card of St Josemaria is available in Chinese. It is also available on this website in pdf format in Thai, Vietnamese, Arab, Bulgarian and Armenian, and other languages. “When the Lord calls me and [...]
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