(1902-1975) Saint Josemaría was a Spanish priest who founded Opus Dei in 1928, a Catholic institution of laypeople and priests that focuses on the universal call to holiness and sanctification of ordinary daily work. He experienced hardships and poverty in family life and religious persecution during the Spanish Civil War. Saint Josemaría Escrivá dedicated his life to the building of God’s Kingdom through the apostolate of Opus Dei.

Pope Saint John Paul II summed up Saint Josemaría’s message at the canonization Mass on October 6, 2002: “Work and any other activity, carried out with the help of grace, is converted into a means of daily sanctification.” Take some time to reflect on how addiction and recovery have each affected your work. How have they affected your sanctification?

“Abandonment to the will of God is the secret of happiness on earth. Say, then: meus cibus est, ut faciam voluntatem ejus, my food is to do his will” (Saint Josemaria Escriva, The Way).