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Hi, welcome to Catholic Saints. My name is Mary McGee, and today we are joined with Dr. Chris Mooney, professor of theology here at the Augustine Institute.

And today we're going to talk about Catholic Saint, St. Jose Maria Escriva, where we want to learn about the saint, look to them for inspiration, and see how they are inspirations

for us in our daily life today. So thank you for joining us. Thanks Mary. It's great to be here.

Yes. I know little about St. Jose Maria Estreva. I know he is the founder of Opus Day. I know

a friend gave me the book, The Furrow, and had many short, piffy statements.

Yep.

And that's about it.

What can you tell us just, where did he grow up?

Where did he live?

What time period?

Some of the basics about the saint.

Yeah, I think St.

Holmes and Maria is someone that I wish more Catholics today knew about because he brings

forth so many of the best things of the church today and of the Second Vatican Council.

So John Paul II said we could think of St. Jose Maria as the saint of ordinary life.

And by that, he means that the sort of center of St.

Hosera's ministry and all of his work as a priest and in founding Opus Day, it was the idea,

the sort of paradox of we can have the, in some ways, extraordinary grace of holiness in very ordinary things,

our very ordinary everyday lives as parents, as coworkers, as friends getting a drink,

as members of a family, all these sorts of things.

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