The published books of Josémaría Escrivá are on the internet!
Click here and you will find access to his works in Spanish, including ‘Camino’ —with nearly 4,500,000 copies distributed in 43 languages— and other books on Christian spirituality written by the saint José María, ‘Surco’, ‘Forja’, ‘ Christ is passing by’, ‘Friends of God’, ‘Holy Rosary’, ‘Via Crucis’, ‘Amar a la Iglesia’ and ‘Conversations’.
Initially, much of Josémaría Escrivá’s published works are available in four languages: Spanish, French, Italian and English. Gradually, the remaining books and texts in other languages have been incorporated.
This website has a search engine that allows the visitor to find, under different criteria, words and phrases in all titles. The page www.escrivaworks.org It also offers users a version to print, send to a friend and the possibility of creating a personal folder to archive the texts they would like to keep.
Josémaría Escrivá’s books have been translated into dozens of languages and have brought the Christian message to hundreds of thousands of people. Like ‘Camino’, the brief points of ‘Surco’ and ‘Forja’ are flashes that aim to encourage the reader’s spiritual life and human virtues. ‘Friends of God’, ‘Christ is passing by’ and ‘Amar a la Iglesia’ contain homily that invite the reader to a personal encounter with Christ.
‘Santo Rosario’ and ‘Via Crucis’ offer, also with short texts, profound reflections on these practices of Christian piety. ‘Conversations’ includes various interviews that Saint Josémaría offered to some communication media in which he responds to questions that, for the most part, are still very current.
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Books of Saint Josémaría Escrivá Balaguer that can be found at Type Works:
“Mons. Escrivá Balaguer has written something more than a masterpiece: he wrote taking inspiration from his own heart and the short paragraphs that make up The Way are also bequeathed to his heart…” . This work was first published in 1934, under the title of Spiritual Considerations. Today it has already reached 333 editions and more than four million copies, in 42 languages.
Like Camino, Surco is the fruit of Blessed Josémaría Escrivá’s personal prayer and soul experience. Also composed of meditation points, it presents an attractive vision of human virtues. The author had left it ready for publication in the absence of the final revision, which he did not have time to do. The first edition was published in 1986. 67 editions have been published, in 18 languages and 432,000 copies.
Structured in the same way as “Camino” and “Surco”, the published work, “Forja”, “is a book of fire, whose reading and meditation can place many souls in the forge of divine Love, and ignite them in eagerness to holiness and apostolate, because it was the wish of Mons. Escrivá (Mons. Álvaro del Portillo).The first edition was published in 1987. Until now it has reached 43 editions, in 12 languages, and 384,000 copies.
Book of meditations on each of the fifteen mysteries of the life of Christ that are contemplated when praying the Holy Rosary. The first edition also from 1934. Since then 122 editions have appeared, in 23 languages, with a total of 688,000 copies.
Brief meditations on the scenes of the Passion of the Lord, arising from the personal prayer of Saint Josémaría Escrivá. The first edition was published in 1981. There have been 72 editions, in 18 languages, with a total of 386,000 copies.
Conversations with Monsignor Escrivá de Balaguer
Collection and interviews in which Josémaría Escrivá de Balaguer answers in writing the questions asked by various newspapers and magazines from different countries. At the end of the volume is included the homily “Love the world passionately” delivered in 1967. The first edition of 1968. 55 editions have been published, in 9 languages, with a total of 330,000 copies.
Homily on the Church and the priesthood. The volume includes two articles by Bishop Álvaro del Portillo on the figure of the Founder of Opus Dei. Since 1986, 13 editions have been published in 8 languages, totaling 41,055 copies.
This volume collects 18 homilies that offer a profound and suggestive exposition of Christian doctrine and life. By Bishop Álvaro del Portillo. The first edition of 1973. 87 editions have already appeared, in 13 languages and 467,000 copies.
Compilation of other 18 homilies, in which the author takes the Christian virtues as the guiding thread of his filial dialogue with God. By Bishop Álvaro del Portillo. Published in 1977 and currently has 75 editions, in 13 languages and 389,000 copies.
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