Sanctify the World: How I Got Through Tough Times
I’ve been really busy recently. But I’ve also found soliace in that work. While things have been quite busy I’ve been helped to get through this tough time by the work of one of my favourite saints St. Josemaria Escriva, the founder of Opus Dei.
St. Josemaria emphasizes that everyone can be saints and we’re called to sanctify the world through our daily work by doing that work well, doing it in a state of grace and dedicating that work to God. That work includes our jobs but it also means our role as people. For me that means being a husband and a friend.
Since I want to dedicate the work of my life to God and do it well and in a state of grace. That means I have to take things slowly to make sure I do it with God in mind and behave that way. So I can’t rush things, otherwise I’ll get stressed and I might overreact and then maybe I could behave improperly towards someone (which could take me out of a state of grace) or I’m might not do the work well.
For some people that might lead them to have scruples. For me, it means I have to break each task down into bit sized pieces that I can handle and I tend to break that up with prayer.
That pray includes:
- Opus Dei’s heroic minute
- The Angelus
- The St. Michael’s chaplet
- The Divine Office/Liturgy of the Hours
- Daily Mass Readings (I’m trying to get to Daily Mass whenever I can)
- The Rosary
- Spiritual reading (Right now I’m reading (St. Josemaria’s The Way)
- The Divine Mercy chaplet
- Frequent mental prayer
J.
