Today is the feast day of St. Josemaria Escriva, and if you’d like to learn more about this spiritual giant you can hardly do better than Eric Sammons’s new book, Holiness for Everyone: The Practical Spirituality of St. Josemaria Escriva (Our Sunday Visitor, paperback, 144 pages). I reviewed the book last month:
“In Holiness for Everyone: The Practical Spirituality of St. Josemaria Escriva (Our Sunday Visitor, paperback, 144 pages), Eric uses his own lived experience of St. Josemaria’s program to re-introduce a man Pope John Paul II called “the saint of ordinary life.”
The book begins with a short biography of Escriva before diving in to Escriva’s favorite theme, one which also grounded the Second Vatican Council: God’s goal for you is nothing less than sainthood, and therefore we’re all called to sanctity.
If you want a more biographical introduction to St. Josemaria or Opus Dei, there are several great options (I especially recommend John Allen’s book, Opus Dei or Scott Hahn’s spiritual memoir.) However, Eric’s book moves past biography into the realm of spiritual reading. He doesn’t just provide basic facts; he gives you a roadmap toward holiness, unveiling Escriva’s ‘ordinary path’ toward sanctity and inviting you down the Way.”
Read the rest of the review here.