Opus Dei

“The fullness of God is revealed and given to us in Christ, in the love of Christ, in Christ’s heart.” The centre of the solemnity of the Sacred Heart is Christ Himself and the particular kind of love his Heart contains: patient, self-sacrificing, and tender.

The 81st issue, from June-December 2025, marks the 40th anniversary of “Romana.” The official bulletin of the Prelature of Opus Dei was published for the first time in 1986, reporting on the year 1985.

The theme of Pope Leo’s apostolic journey to Spain from 6-12 June is: “Lift up your eyes!” This article contains text and video excerpts from the journey, with links to the full itinerary and text of each stop along the way. It is updated daily.

Fernando was a member of Opus Dei for eleven years. Today, after a difficult departure and a journey back, he reflects on the impact of those years and how true friendship can move mountains.

In his 3 June general audience, Pope Leo XIV continued the catechetical cycle on the Second Vatican Council, speaking about the dogmatic constitution “Sacrosanctum Concilium” and one of the fundamental elements of the sacred liturgy: the rite.

A freezing warehouse in Northampton became a turning point for Cabo, helping him go from feeling lost in a foreign country to experiencing God’s presence in his life, appreciating everything He’d given him and wondering what God might be calling him to give back.

A recollection is a “mini-retreat,” a few hours of quiet prayer when we look at our lives in God's presence. This guide can help us spend an hour or two in loving conversation with God, right where we are.

Pope Leo XIV invites us not to go through life with our eyes "fixed on the ground." Exams can do exactly that — swallow up the whole horizon and take your peace with them — but it doesn't have to be that way.

18 members of Opus Dei were ordained to the priesthood by Bishop Fernando José Castro Aguayo, Bishop of Margarita (Venezuela). The ceremony took place at the Basilica of Saint Eugune (Rome).

This is the beginning of a series on the arts as spaces for spiritual life. In this first article, we will consider how the Incarnation — the fact that God chose to take on a physical form — reveals the true value of the material world, and, with it, the potential of the arts.