Friends of God

holiness, friendship with God, daily life sanctification, apostolate, and interior life..

Friends of God gathers St. Josemaría’s spiritual counsels on living as God’s friend, especially through personal prayer and trustful “conversation with the Lord”—a friendship marked by love rather than rigid techniques. It highlights that the Christian’s contemplative dialogue can happen in the middle of ordinary life, where the “street” and everyday bustle become a real place of prayer and sanctification. The book’s theological significance lies in its focus on divine filiation: responding to God as a loving Father and letting that identity shape one’s life through faith, charity, and a growing union of one’s will with the Father’s will. In this way, it presents friendship with God as both a lived spiritual practice and a deeply Christ-centered path to holiness in the everyday.