Saturday Book Pick: 'Holiness for Everyone: The Practical Spirituality of St. Josemaria Escriva.'

Accessible Sainthood 

FATHER C. JOHN McCLOSKEY

Eric Sammons has written an insightful book titled Holiness for Everyone: the Practical Spirituality of St. Josemaría Escrivá, with a foreword by Scott Hahn.

Sammons writes with the zeal of a convert and the joy that comes from finding within the Church many helpers on the road to holiness. That journey will end only in heaven, where we will enjoy permanent ecstasy in God’s presence.

Sammons finds his spiritual coaching in the spirituality of St. Josemaría Escrivá and the supernatural family he founded — Opus Dei. 

Though he is not a member of the personal prelature, Sammons is obviously an admirer.

This book is quite useful for those many “ordinary Catholics” who realize that holiness for a layperson normally will require exercising one’s faith in the world — in work, family life, friendships, corporal and spiritual works of mercy, etc.

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