Ordinary Life and Holiness, Volume 2 St. John of the Cross the creation and fall of

the creation and fall of man

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The Calling of the First Disciples

Based on the Latin Vulgate

so that through both times of ease and times of burden

Ordinary Life and Holiness, Volume 2 St. John of the Cross the creation and fall ofOn May 17, 1992, Pope John Paul II beatified Josemara Escriv de Balaguer. Ten years later, on October 6, 2002, he was proclaimed a saint. He was chosen by God, affirmed the Roman pontiff, to announce the universal call to holiness and to indicate that daily life, common activities, are a path of sanctification. It could be said that he was the Saint of the Ordinary. On September 14, 2005, Pope Benedict XVI blessed a statue of St. Josemara placed on