Opus Dei

Prelate of Opus Dei says that holiness is not for the few.

All Christians are made one body with Christ through Baptism and participate in his redemptive mission. Each and every one therefore must actively work to pass on to all men and women the gospel Jesus preached.

"Through the teachings of the Founder of Opus Dei, I have grasped an important idea: we can only be really useful to others if we have self-discipline, control over our actions and reactions; in other words, if we are acquiring human virtues."

Bishop Alfred Adewale Martins, Bishop of the Diocese of Abeokuta has encouraged Opus Dei to be bolder at a seminar for priests organized at Iroto Conference Centre in preparation for the year 2002, centenary celebrations of Blessed Josemaría’s birth.

For Blessed Josemaria, the founder of Opus Dei, a sure seat awaits him among the saints in heaven as authorities of the Catholic Church have approved a miracle in his name, which cured a Spanish medical doctor who had been afflicted by a terminal disease.

The core of this book is three homilies on themes related to the Church, given in 1972-73, when the author suffered much over the confusion of the post-conciliar years

Wanting to help, I gave him a prayer-card of Monsignor Josemaria Escriva, the Founder of Opus Dei. I suggested he could seek his protection and ask for the favor of his hands being cured.

Such conditions [of chronic radiodermatitis] always worsen progressively. Never until that moment had I known them to regress over a period of time. And in fact they had disappeared without any treatment.

His hands are now completely cured. He attributes the cure of his hands from chronic radiodermatitis to the petition he made to Blessed Josemaria.