This book made me see beyond prayers and meditations. It helped me understand God in the deepest level. Through my most inner thoughts and actions. I doubted my christian faith, now I've been explained so much, that my doubts have been answered. It showed me how the holy spirit and the church adapts to these fast times we live today, so we can become people of strength and Love through our work, charity and humility.

Josemaria Escriva challenges every Christian to unite his daily trails and ordinary duties with Christ's passion. Every short point in this book is a seed that can grow through prayer and meditation into an abundance of spiritual good fruits.

Escriva believes that every individual can become a saint. Every life has opportunities for heroic action in the smallest details of daily living. Sanctity is not just for priests and religious. Offering one's work to God is a simple, yet startlingly radical notion.

Note: This book IS still in print.

If you really want to grow in God's Way you should read this book. Can make you change your way of living life. The best spiritual author of the Century.

Reading about the life of Bl. Escriva is definitely inspirational. A must read for those who seek to practice their faith in their ordinary lives.

Excellent Book, Very interesting and lost of historical facts. It is worth a look.

Deep and intelligent. Not only anecdotical. Historical perspective very interesting. results very easy to understand the reason for the popes of the catholic church sponsorizes the personal prelature of opus dei: it serves people to sanctify and makes the christian life at hand.

Leí Camino por curiosidad. Me atrapó su claridad y ¨espiritualidad¨. Hay algo en el libro que hace que tu pequeña fe se transforme en una fe enorme.Fe Católica que te hace sentir con fortaleza para llevar cualquier empresa en este mundo y estar feliz de saberte hijo de Dios al llegar tu paso al ¨otro¨ mundo.

This book helped me in a very important key-days in my life. Could be usefull to people who want to work for the catholic church.

An exciting description of the Passion of Jesus Christ. Very good for personal and public prayer. A narration accompanied by short reflections. You feel you are attending the scene on the Calvary.

The most helpfull catholic book I have read, with short and direct comments that help to the spiritual life

This little book (small enough to carry in a pocket) has 999 spiritual directives, organized according to their subject. This organization, PLUS the subject index, enables the reader to quickly find something that is of particular interest.
There just aren't adequate words to describe how inspiring this book can be, if you give it - but more accurately YOURSELF - a full chance to receive and ingrain it's benefits. It's phenomenally, power packed with inspiration and direction !
Although it can be read relatively quickly it's the sort of book that is more likely to give the reader the maximum possible benefit if read slowly, with meditative pauses when something strikes one with particular emphasis.
Although much attention is paid to the individual's interior life there is also a great deal of direction provided for various ways of reaching out to our fellow man.
So ..... to summize ..... I, very strongly, recommend this book ! It really is the sort of book that you'd be apt to read repeatedly, and ingrain it's directives into your daily life.

This is the first of three books Bl. Josemaria Escriva wrote of short spiritual counsels. It is also the only one published during his lifetime, and it is considered the greatest work he wrote. Why?

It is concise and insightful. Bl. Josemaria reaches to root of what troubles us spiritually, and challenges us to conform our life to God's plan for our life. He also teaches us that every little thing we do in our life -- work, sport, leisure -- can be done well for the greater glory of God, and offered as prayer.

This presented an important spiritual awakening for me, since I before reading this book I tended to compartmentalize my prayer life. What is also unique about this book is that the insights are broken down into short sentences. The longest insight is no more than two paragraphs. Thus this book can be carried around with ease, and meditated upon during a spare minute or two during the day.

Firstly I would say the book was well written and well presented.
This book is written with the express intention of proving that Josemaria Escriva was a saint(in my view). Thus any incidents which could be read ambivalently are usually followed with a paragraph to show why Josemaria demonstrated holiness here.
One example occurred where a fellow seminarian gave Josemaria a hug. He responded by saying something to the effect "just because you do not wash does not make you more of a man", casting aspersions of his fellow seminarians manhood and hygeine. I have no problem with even a saint making a slip like this, but the book continually presents such slips are evidence of sanctity ! In presenting such instances as examples of Josemaria's sanctity, the author , and by implication the movement, appear to believe that the work of God can sometimes be achieved through dissimulation, something they would likely label 'Holy Shamelessness'!
In many ways the book reads like a typical hagiography of a traditional saint - it would great if the world was black and white like that , but ...
I must say I have no quibble that Blessed Josemaria sincerely strove to serve God, and that he sincerely believed he was doing God's will. I have no problem with his being canonised, I just happen to believe that canonisations show the great depths of God's mercy, rather than the great heights of sanctity God raised the particular saint to .
I would actually recommend reading this book , to get a handle on Opus Dei as they would see themselves. I would also
recommend reading a more critical volume , such as Maria Carmen del Tapia's book Beyond the Threshold : A life in Opus Dei.
My advice is hear both sides and make your own mind up.
PS I would add that John Coverdale's book Uncommon Faith
is less hagiographical and presents more of the complexities of the political stuation in Spain at the time of the Civil war. So if one was keenly interested , I would recommend reading this too.

Several biographies of the founder of Opus Dei have been published in the past. None, however, provides as complete a picture as this one. Its author, Vasquez de Prada, in addition to having personnally known Blessed Josemaria, was able to tap sources that became accessible only recently. This new biography will eventually include 3 volumes. Volume II is to be published in 2002.

Volume I relates the story of Josemaria from his birth in January 2002 to 1936, when the Spanish Civil War broke out. A remarkable feature of the book is the way in which the author has managed to develop two distinct ideas about Blessed Josemaria and the Work (as he use to call Opus Dei before he gave it that name)without really separating them. The first is that his life was one of total dedication to the birth and development of Opus Dei. The second is that the origin of Opus Dei cannot be explained in strictly natural terms: it clearly involves a supernatural element.

But the most interesting aspect of this biography is the additional light it sheds on the spiritual life of Blessed Josemaria. The extensive quotes from his diary and personal notes reveal some of the most intimate aspects of his interior life. There now is probably more information about the personal life of Blessed Josemaria than almost any other well-known figure of the 20th century.

Blessed Josemaria dedicated his whole life to proclaiming the message that there is real grandeur in ordinary life if we offer it to God. In doing so, he probably exerted more influence on the day to day life of modern Christians than any other figure of the XXth Century.

One final point. Although translated from Spanish, the English edition reads as if it had been written in American English.

If you ever wondered how a man work his heart out in a good cause during his life and would like to do as well, read this book, and see how you can do God's will santificating your work, as blessed Josemaria said: "Remember that, in the service of God, there are no jobs of little value: all are very important. The value of a task depends on the personal conditions of the one who exercises it, on the love of God that is put into it. The job of a farm laborer who sanctifies himself cultivating the land is a noble one, and so is that of a university professor who unites culture and faith. And so is the task of an artisan who works in his own home; and of a banker who makes money become fruitful for the benefit of the community; and of a politician who sees in his work a service for the good of all; and of the laborer who offers God the work of his hands".

Not very informative. Does not speak of the Opus Dei mafia.

This book is well worth its price-it brings to life Blessed Josemaria Escriva through the eyes of the man who was at his side for over 40 years. When reading the writings of Escriva one feels that they are indeed pious things to reach for, but this book shows that Escriva actually practiced what he preached. How apt the title of the work is-Immersed in God. It paints a true picture of who Escriva was. Everything that he did referred to God, when reading this book you will discover this. When they had games to guess a number in the Father's head, it would always be either 3 or a multiplication of 3, in honor of the Holy Trinity. When he used to read the newspaper, he would be praying for all the people and events to the Lord. When he would greet someone he would first mentally greet his or her guardian angel. He would always give up a better seat for someone else. He was a man who used every moment of his life as a sacrifice to offer to God. He was indeed a saint-he is the definition of one. Read this work-you will find yourself imitating him.