A Path to Sainthood

Another Help Toward Sainthood

'Don't neglect your spiritual reading. Reading has made many saints.'

St. Josemaria Escriva

Painting: Albert Anker

Sanctify the Moment

'Do you really want to be a saint? 

Carry out the little duty 
of each moment. 

Do what you ought 
and concentrate 
on what you are doing.'

St. Josemaria Escriva

Painting: Edgar Degas

Love in Heaven

'If love, even human love, 

gives so much consolation here, 

what will love not be like in heaven?'

St. Josemaria Escriva

Painting:William Adolphe Bouguereau, Maternal Admiration

In Need of Thread

'All that exterior activity 

is a waste of time if you lack love. 

It's like sewing with a needle and no thread.'

St. Josemaria Escriva

Painting: Philip Wilson Steer

But Not the Folly (or: how to face the world)

‘Faith, joy, optimism.  

 But not the folly of closing your eyes to reality.’

St. Josemaria Escriva

Painting:  Frederick Childe Hassam, Summer Evening 1886; in US public domain due to age

Everyday Work

'The fullness of life that God rightly expects from His children 

means that they have to have a careful concern for the quality 

of their everyday work, because it is this work, 

even in its most minor aspects, 

that they must sanctify.'

St. Josemaria Escriva

Painting: Charles Courtney Curran, Shadows

Decision

                        'Never make a decision without stopping to consider the matter in the presence of God.'                                                                                               

St. Josemaria Escriva

Friederich von Amerling painting in US public domain

Want to be a Saint?

 "Do you really want to be a saint?  Carry out the little duty of each moment,

 do what you ought and put yourself into what you are doing"  (St. Josemaria Escriva)

(painting by Ernestine von Kirchsberg; in US public domain)

Already Begun

 

"You don't know how to pray?    

Put yourself in the presence of God,  

and as soon as you have said
 'Lord, I don't know how to pray!'  

you can be sure you have already begun."
                                                                                                   (St. Josemaria Escriva)