Opus Dei (finding God in daily life)

"Josemaría Escrivá was born in Barbastro, Spain on January 9, 1902. He was ordained on March 28, 1925. He studied civil law along with his ecclesiastical studies, and in 1927, he moved to Madrid to obtain a doctorate in law. While there, he worked hard with the poor and sick, and also with students, workers, and professionals.

On October 2, 1928, he saw by divine inspiration, as the Pope's Apostolic Constitution Ut Sit affirmed, that God was asking him to spread the universal call to holiness, and that a new path would be opened up within the Church – Opus Dei – to spread this call throughout the world."

Saint Josemaria is credited with founding the Opus Dei prelate ("a personal prelate is a canonical structure of the Catholic Church with comprises clergy and laity unider the jurisdiction of a prelate who undertake special pastoral activities"). Josemaria is considered the "Saint of Ordinary Life" and he believed in the sanctification of ordinary life by laypeople living the gospel and he spread the call to holiness through daily life.

Reading about Saint Josemaria and the life he lived gives me hope, hope that it is possible to connect daily with God and to "see what God wants of me" each moment.

Lord, please let me see what you want and need from me with each moment of living!